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I'm not an advocate for work from home. The thing about covid is that it forced employers and employees to discover what was practical for work-from-home. And y

I'm not an advocate for work from home. The thing about covid is that it forced employers and employees to discover what was practical for work-from-home. And you may well find for some employers, work-from-home being practical is enough. Work-from-home doesn't have to be great or even good. Offices are incredibly expensive. Between not paying for office space and being able to hire anyone from around the world, the virtual organization gives the employer a lot of pluses that they can use to offset the negatives. And if in a given circumstances, this only works for some people. Well, they can hire replacements for the people it doesn't work for. It seems like this will happen unless something stops it.

bobthepanda 6y ago
At least in the US, there has been moaning for a decade going on two about how hard it is to hire qualified people at current salaries in STEM. If you fire all the people who don’t like WFH backfilling them is not going to be easy, and even if you did that’s probably a good chunk of tribal knowledge lost.
- globular-toast 6y ago
  It will be easy if they hire people for those salaries from anywhere in the world. The only reason it's hard now is because they require them to live in SV which not everyone can do.
  - throwaway53453 6y ago
    Some of the people who like offices undoubtedly live and work outside Silicon Valley...?
    - globular-toast 6y ago
      So? Those people still won't be available, but plenty more will be.