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>Yet in every software company I’ve worked for, almost everyone’s job could be – and sometimes was – done perfectly well online, remotely. Yes, all of them: pro

>Yet in every software company I’ve worked for, almost everyone’s job could be – and sometimes was – done perfectly well online, remotely. Yes, all of them: product, engineering, design, ops, marketing and more. Even skeptics of remote work know this, deep down. And right now, we are seeing a real-life proof of concept for this fact that everyone has sorta known for a long time. Remote teams work just fine. The doubters have been conclusively proven wrong. This is just a ridiculous premise. This guy has no evidence that remote working is actually as productive as in-office working, and just asserting it is ridiculous. I've been remote working for around 3 months now, and I would say roughly half the people I work with are desparate to go back into the office. They're less productive, they're less happy, core parts of their job just aren't being done at all. Where's the evidence this is working at all? Frankly it's just bullshit to try and make this claim without actually thinking about this in detail make me think its probably not worth hearing about his baseless speculation about what life is like in the magic remote working lollipop unicorn kingdom. >the flip side of “why do employees in cheaper areas need as much money” becomes, rather, why does the company need people in San Francisco? Or maybe it says something about your assumptions that you think copmanies have had an opportunity to save enormous sums on salaries for decades but just didn't bother. When actually, when we see companies look to cost-save they stop people working from home, they tend to actually try and consolidate their employees into fewer, bigger offices because it cuts down on communication and travel ineffiiciencies and lets them get economies of scale. I just personally think it's ridiculous to try and make out like companies are still going to pretend COVID is happening in 2 years when we have a vaccine and there's no longer the same motivation to allow people to work from home. Not least because the way most companies have had to allow people to work from home has been unplanned and disorganised - so companies aren't even going to be comparing good WFH best practices with the office environment.

xenithorb 6y ago
I think this is the wrong time to be judging remote work. It's being used out of necessity during one of the most stressful and anxious times in this generation's history. Of course people want to get back into the office when they've been stuck at home for months, possibly with their souse and children. Of course people aren't their most productive when they're preoccupied with a deadly virus, or threat thereof, or getting toilet paper. As a remote worker of 5 years myself I was concerned when this all started that it would leave remote work in general in a bad light as the masses were involuntary thrust into adapting, and this unfortunately seems to be coming true because we're not taking into account the humanity of the entire situation.

xenithorb 6y ago

I think this is the wrong time to be judging remote work. It's being used out of necessity during one of the most stressful and anxious times in this generation's history. Of course people want to get back into the office when they've been stuck at home for months, possibly with their souse and children. Of course people aren't their most productive when they're preoccupied with a deadly virus, or threat thereof, or getting toilet paper. As a remote worker of 5 years myself I was concerned when this all started that it would leave remote work in general in a bad light as the masses were involuntary thrust into adapting, and this unfortunately seems to be coming true because we're not taking into account the humanity of the entire situation.