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That’s not how this works. There’s an extreme bias toward butts-in-seats. “Everyone should do what’s best for them” is a nice sentiment, but not how the world w
by poink 5y ago
That’s not how this works. There’s an extreme bias toward butts-in-seats. “Everyone should do what’s best for them” is a nice sentiment, but not how the world works at all.
There are a lot of people currently enjoying remote work who are rightfully worried about being forced back to the office for what they perceive as zero benefit. I’m not one of them, but I get where they’re coming from.
- JohnBooty 5y agobut not how the world works at all. Counterpoint: competition (and coexistence) between various approaches is most definitely how much of the world works, much of the time.
- lumost 5y agoCompanies succeed by hiring the best people and setting them up to do great work. I think the future in many large firms will be to pair full-time remote folks with others who enjoy full time remote. There are sure to be many hybrid and full in office teams as well. A similar transition occurred a decade ago when companies moved* offices to cities and away from suburban campuses. * for some definition of “move”