> Basically, work is going to get more flexible but the idea that nobody ever needs to interact with humans in real life again is insanity. I still find this a

> Basically, work is going to get more flexible but the idea that nobody ever needs to interact with humans in real life again is insanity. I still find this assumption baked in to a lot of the criticisms of remote work. I'll give the benefit of the doubt here that you don't thing remote = never talking to people, so the assumption would seem then to be that video conferencing and text chat is not "interacting" with people. It very much is, and a lot of people have made it work in a lot of different contexts for a long time. Most of the drawbacks that still exist in certain situations are things that, given time, we'll solve. Already in the past year, we've seen at least one report showing WFH productivity increasing 46% relative to the productivity in offices.[0] I can't think of any reason why this trend wouldn't continue--we're still at a stage where there's a _lot_ of low hanging fruit. [0] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28461/w28461.pdf https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28461/w284...