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These kind of articles are sooo dumb. Those tech CEO's are acting like complete idiots. 1. You can measure productivity in a precise way only in some mindless
by boris_m 3y ago
These kind of articles are sooo dumb. Those tech CEO's are acting like complete idiots.
1. You can measure productivity in a precise way only in some mindless repetitive jobs e.g. are Twitter employees more productive now that they are in the office. How do you measure that (if you measure it in profits, app quality etc. I'd say that they are much less productive)
2. Each person is different. I may be 10% more productive at home than in the office, and my coworker may be 20% less productive. Why do I have to be in the office because of some stupid statistic?
3. Fine, let's say people who work at home have lower productivity. But working from home enables you to hire people from all over the world as well as people who cannot go to the office for various other reasons. I'm not a big tech CEO, but somehow it seems to me that the best candidate in the world, working at 90% of their capacity will still perform better than the best candidate who happens to live in your city and is willing to travel.
4. Working from home is also linked to a better well-being, which means less turnover, better working environment etc.
5. Most importantly: the fucking planet is dying, because of carbon emissions and you want to just dismiss the obvious and already implemented solution for reducing those by letting people not travel to work, just because of some 10% profit increase.
- uxcolumbo 3y agoYep - great points, esp the last point. During COVID air quality went up and probably other damage we cause was reduced as well.
- tamimio 3y ago>the fucking planet is dying, because of carbon emissions and you want to just dismiss the obvious They never cared about that, but corps are happy to take government grants and tax cut to “protect” the planet.
- quantified 3y agoDisruptive open office plans are just as bad as they ever were. It's part of why we took to WFH so well. And the amount of time we can spend on chit-chat at the office is greater, many more opportunities.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y agoIf the CEOs are "complete idiots", make your own work-from-home company and compete with those complete idiots who demand going to the office, and let's see who wins. This is how it works. Other than that, whining "my boss is an idiot" is the national pastime of the average worker for centuries.
- Apocryphon 3y agoAutomattic seems to be dominating their space, and has been remote first for years before the pandemic.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y agoAnd what is that supposed to tell us? If it's so awesome, work for Automattic, or start companies like it to dominate other spaces. Where's the problem? I just can't stand this learned helplessness in people, like the writer's strikes in Hollywood. Oh the studios are terrible, oh they're doing literally everything wrong all the time. But I'll just sit in the middle of the street, shout cringe at people and demand slightly higher pay. Go out and show people what you can do if you know how to do everything better. And if not, at least stop complaining about your boss and go back to work.
- Apocryphon 3y agoYou are extrapolating a lot out of a simple statement pointing out there is an example work-from-home company that is very competitive, and appears to be winning. They aren't winning so much that they're able to make Tumblr profitable, but better companies have tried and failed. Other remote first companies have been attempted, and flourished, such as Buffer. DigitalOcean. Not sure how current this list is: https://buffer.com/resources/remote-jobs/ https://buffer.com/resources/remote-jobs/ edit: So your solution to being underpaid as workers is instead of organizing and pushing back as workers, as it is the legally recognized of labor for over a century, is to start your own competing studio? If that is what you consider "cringe," then you have successfully signaled your virtues. Very well.