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while people will all point out the benefits of working together in the office, when you weigh it against the blindingly obvious downsides: - enormous time los
by zmmmmm 4y ago
while people will all point out the benefits of working together in the office, when you weigh it against the blindingly obvious downsides:
- enormous time lost to commutes
- massive lost flexibility
- restriction of your workforce to the tiny 20 mile radius of people willing / able to physically travel to your office instead of literally the entire world (or at least, those in your time zone who speak your language)
If you put the mild benefits of "chit cat at the water cooler", "separation b/w home and work" etc which mostly only benefits the extroverts it seem utterly bonkers to sacrifice all that. Far better to invest in actually doing remote well - which does take effort and does heavily mitigate many of the things people complain about with WFH.
- nicbou 4y agoI'd rephrase "chit chat at the water cooler" as "not being alone in a room for most of the day". Others are happy to spend time away from their home, which might be unsuitable for productive work. I am quite fine with this arrangement, but it's a bit more charitable to those who aren't.
- whateveracct 4y ago> not being alone in a room for most of the day I think differences in people's personal lives silently drive this conversation. I've worked remote before covid (better part of a decade now). I've never felt alone .. but I'm married. So I spend my remote work time with my wife instead of being apart from her in an office. That drives my love of remote work. But someone without that may frame it as "being alone all day."