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I’ve been seeing companies that have tried to get people to commute to/from and “work” from their office (any number of days) starting to lose the good people -

• helij 3y ago
  We have a completely flexible working arrangement. Pretty much 'do what you want'. We provide equipment for working from home and we also have offices stocked with food, etc. If we changed that and demanded return to office I know for a fact that the most capable people would be the first to give notice and we would immediately be less profitable.
• throw10920 3y ago
  > starting to lose the good people - the ones you want to keep around. Right, because telework is only beneficial for the good developers, because most outside of the top 20%/10%/5% won't be able to compete with low-cost international labor enabled by telework. Telework is quite clearly a way to cut down on the middle class while enriching a small elite class of workers, and comments like this show those who think that they're in that class.
  • l3mure 3y ago
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    • throw10920 3y ago
      My comment is clearly related to the parent comment - they're both obviously and unambiguously about telework and its ramifications. To claim that "it's a generic political tangent" is completely absurd. I will admit that it was more political than I was aware of and is appropriate for HN, and for that I apologize to later readers - it's too late for me to edit it, and so I'll just have to live with it.