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These are certainly valid concerns you raise, broadly speaking. However, as mentioned in numerous other comments, there is a compelling case to be made that rem
by bww 5y ago
These are certainly valid concerns you raise, broadly speaking. However, as mentioned in numerous other comments, there is a compelling case to be made that remote work is more productive for a lot of people. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if it also affected retention. Far from the suggestion that some people simply can’t be bothered to commute as you rather dismissively suggest.
In any case, the fact that this may make things marginally more challenging for management in the near term as we collectively adjust to this reality is, frankly, a pretty lame justification for opposing remote work categorically.
- xyzelement 5y agoYou are assigning to me a much more extreme view than I hold. I neither dismiss the desire to do remote work (I express some of it for myself) nor oppose it "categorically". I am simply saying that the "pros" are obvious to everyone but the cons are more subtle and may not be relevant for everyone. I also think someone's ability to self assess their own productivity is suspect:one may feel productive because they coded undistributed all day - when I'm reality the most productive thing they could have done that day is perceived that two juniors were arguing over a silly point and set them straight - something they'd have done in the physical but not virtual office.