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If remote work is a winning concept on the market, why we needed coronavirus crisis for it to get adopted? Are markets not working?
by pinkybanana 5y ago
If remote work is a winning concept on the market, why we needed coronavirus crisis for it to get adopted? Are markets not working?
- luxpir 5y agoMarkets are not optimized for quality of life. It's one variable of many in a system evolved to coerce the many to benefit the few.
- machinebun 5y ago> Markets are not optimized for quality of life. It's one variable of many in a system evolved to coerce the many to benefit the few. You need enough buy in from enough companies to actually have a competitive market for remote work. I think things were moving in that direction but slowly (as things tend to do) - COVID just accelerated the trend.
- pochamago 5y agoInertia, perhaps. We certainly have been seeing reports of digital nomads growing over the last decade, but major shocks can be useful in speeding up transitions. Likely very few CEOs previously imagined how robust the remote work infrastructure had become, and certainly didn't have obvious incentive to implement all the tools until now.