Software automation has been going on for a long time - there's no denying that. I don't see what that has to do with remote work though. Seems like the author

Software automation has been going on for a long time - there's no denying that. I don't see what that has to do with remote work though. Seems like the author just stuck in the remote work buzzword to get some more clicks despite that being a completely separate topic. > a CEO friend of mine “jokingly” told me that he believed all the “remote” buzz was as much about reducing the collective power of the employees as it was about saving a dime on salaries. I've spent the entirety of the ~6 years of my software engineering career wondering why a profession where you're in front of a computer screen all day was so hostile to remote work. At every job I'd try to persuade managers to be more open to flexible hours and wfh, ultimately realizing it was impossible to change corporate office culture and giving up to exclusively work remote roles at remote-friendly companies. So after years of fighting this fight for increased acceptability of remote work, it's hilarious to hear some CEO telling people that remote work is a ruse intended to decrease our labor power. That's like hearing a CEO say "we've decided to increase the salaries of our engineers above market-rate in order to put them in "golden handcuffs" so they won't leave'. Sure a conspiracy theorist can always theorize about some possible hidden motive, but I'll take the raise, thanks. Remote work might be damaging to the mediocre SF engineer who's inflated salary until now has been protected by companies'/investors' insistence on engineers being in SF, but it's a boon to everyone else who never wanted to be tied down to SF and living in some office campus.