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Employees like to work from home. Managers can't tell what employees are doing when they work from home. They have more difficult time coordinating effort betw
by djha-skin 4y ago
Employees like to work from home.
Managers can't tell what employees are doing when they work from home. They have more difficult time coordinating effort between different individual contributors therefore, when everyone works from home.
Managers are the one signing the paychecks.
No one signs paychecks who is not a manager.
Therefore in the long term all employers will gravitate toward working in the office.
- vvilliamperez 4y agoEdit: OP edited to correct the confusing typo Is this a chat-GPT response? No offense, I'm just confused by the line of reasoning.
- japanman425 4y agoI actually laughed out loud.
- djha-skin 4y agoThis is a human generated response I assure you. I'm just annoyed when people make this argument so complicated. In general, it's quite simple and well-studied: remote work makes individual workers more productive but makes the coordination between individuals more difficult. As coordination is the primary function of managers, their job becomes more difficult. No one seems to understand this (or want to). But once it is accepted that managers' jobs are harder when everyone is remote, the conclusion that remote work will soon experience massive decline (within the next decade) is obvious. It will remain in varying degrees. The more coordination is needed, the more remote work will be discouraged. Workers needing more concentration but requiring less coordination, where the job is well understood, will continue to work from home. Even before the pandemic for example, call center workers commonly worked from home. Start-ups are already very much against remote work in the large. Corporations will soon follow suit. And no matter how much we don't like it they're the ones signing the paychecks.
- vvilliamperez 4y agoOh in the last line of your original post, you said you think we will gravitate Towards working from home. Typo?
- ddmichael 4y agoI can assure you that remote work is here to stay for good and that managers will get a real job in the long-term :)
- miked85 4y agoIs this a ChatGPT response too?
- patothon 4y agoyou can directly ask chat gpt this question. I did and the answer was yes.
- tjr225 4y ago[dead]
- throwaway675309 4y agoNo, this logic is not really well thought out. This would only be the case if every employer was somehow part of an OPEC like organization and would all simultaneously require commuting. What will end up happening is some of the best and brightest will make "remote work" a required perquisite for the next job search, and since they've got the technical chops, if a company can't meet that demand the employee can easily find work somewhere else that will offer remote as a benefit.