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I started working remotely in late 2015 and when I first stepped into the office after some months of this it struck me as insane that we expend all these resou
by Tade0 4y ago
I started working remotely in late 2015 and when I first stepped into the office after some months of this it struck me as insane that we expend all these resources just to have people in particular places, at particular times, producing massive traffic in the process.
It bothers me that it took a pandemic for companies to embrace remote work.
- klodolph 4y agoIt may be a lot of money in total but the amount of money you spend per capita tells a different story. Big cities have traffic problems, but good cities have public transit and you don't need a car. Small towns have low traffic but the amount of money you spend, per capita, on infrastructure like roads, water, electricity is higher.
- wildrhythms 4y ago...and yet the people in charge of those companies are starting to revert back to 'the good old days' of making everybody commute sometimes hours to sit at a (generally worse) workspace to do the work. It's maddening to me.
- FredPret 4y agoIt’s like they want to enforce letter writing after the invention of email, or horse-drawn carriages instead of cars, or in-person work instead of videoconferencing from anywhere. All because of some romantic notion about some essential element being lost. The beauty of capitalism is that competition will either replace those people, or eventually the companies entirely. Luckily this stance makes it very easy to identify and isolate the old guard. I should add that some kinds of engineering has to be on site due to it revolving around rockets or factories or mines or construction sites. But for IT, huge red flag. I’ve had so many offers to work on site and now I don’t even have to bother researching those clients.