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Predicted headline about 1 year from now: "U.S. companies decide to move away from WFH arrangements, return to office". (saying this as someone who's been WFH

• phendrenad2 6y ago
  Agreed. Getting managers to agree to WFH (and keep allowing WFH) has always been a struggle. Management hates it, because they can't see with their own eyeballs that everyone is "working" (with "sitting at their desk" as a somewhat-useful heuristic proxy for "working"). Lots of companies have tried full-remote, and very few stick with it long-term. I think that once the risk is low enough, we'll all be back to the exact same long packed commutes and open-plan offices.
  • rossdavidh 6y ago
    I think one way in which we saw this movie before, was with the move to offshoring programming. It was really big 5-10 years ago, and then quietly got unwound when it turned out that close communication between teams requires more than phone, email, and video. There are places where it works (I am an example of that), but it normally doesn't work all that well, because the advantages of being in one physical space are normally hard to quantify and thus hard to reproduce.