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> You can't innovate and software engineer using 1950s style "butts in seats" This seems to be pulled from thin air. Nobody would have murmured it 3 years ago

> You can't innovate and software engineer using 1950s style "butts in seats" This seems to be pulled from thin air. Nobody would have murmured it 3 years ago. You really think the whole world changed that much in the past 3 years that you can lay down such a superlative?

croes 4y ago
>You really think the whole world changed that much in the past 3 years that you can lay down such a superlative? Because 3 years ago people thought it wouldn't work. The pandemic showed it does.
- throwaway98797 4y ago
  companies mad hired to offset productivity declines so many of that decline is because people can’t be trusted to workout without being baby sat
  - sangnoir 4y ago
    (Internet) companies mad-hired because they thought COVID permanently accelerated the demand shift to online from brick-and-mortar. It turned out it wasn't a new baseline after all.
  - croes 4y ago
    Source? Or is it just hearsay?
- mrits 4y ago
  I'm not sure a huge tech recession is exactly proof.
  - bart_spoon 4y ago
    In what way is the current tech recession related to remote work, and not decades of free investment money followed by massive inflation?
    - mrits 4y ago
      decades of free investment money you say?
      - Qub3d 4y ago
        Over 14 years of QE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#United_Sta... And Quantitative Easing is a "refinement" of the Greenspan Put in the late 1980s. So yeah, 30+ years at this point.
karaterobot 4y ago
Reading generously, I would say you could interpret that statement more like: "Now that we know it is possible to innovate with an asynchronous workforce, and most people want to work that way, it will be extremely difficult for us to gather the same quality of individuals in one place to innovate if we decide we need their butts to be in seats."
d23 4y ago
That's not a superlative, plenty of people had that opinion before three years ago, and sure, why not, it's a web forum.
braingenious 4y ago
>Nobody would have murmured it 3 years ago. Isn’t the word “nobody” literally a superlative?

croes 4y ago

>You really think the whole world changed that much in the past 3 years that you can lay down such a superlative? Because 3 years ago people thought it wouldn't work. The pandemic showed it does.

throwaway98797 4y ago
companies mad hired to offset productivity declines so many of that decline is because people can’t be trusted to workout without being baby sat
- sangnoir 4y ago
  (Internet) companies mad-hired because they thought COVID permanently accelerated the demand shift to online from brick-and-mortar. It turned out it wasn't a new baseline after all.
- croes 4y ago
  Source? Or is it just hearsay?
mrits 4y ago
I'm not sure a huge tech recession is exactly proof.
- bart_spoon 4y ago
  In what way is the current tech recession related to remote work, and not decades of free investment money followed by massive inflation?
  - mrits 4y ago
    decades of free investment money you say?
    - Qub3d 4y ago
      Over 14 years of QE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#United_Sta... And Quantitative Easing is a "refinement" of the Greenspan Put in the late 1980s. So yeah, 30+ years at this point.

karaterobot 4y ago

Reading generously, I would say you could interpret that statement more like: "Now that we know it is possible to innovate with an asynchronous workforce, and most people want to work that way, it will be extremely difficult for us to gather the same quality of individuals in one place to innovate if we decide we need their butts to be in seats."

d23 4y ago

That's not a superlative, plenty of people had that opinion before three years ago, and sure, why not, it's a web forum.

braingenious 4y ago

>Nobody would have murmured it 3 years ago. Isn’t the word “nobody” literally a superlative?