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Here's the full quote. The article is pretty fluffy. > “I think definitely one of the tech industry’s worst mistakes in a long time was that everybody could go
by karaterobot 3y ago
Here's the full quote. The article is pretty fluffy.
> “I think definitely one of the tech industry’s worst mistakes in a long time was that everybody could go full remote forever, and startups didn’t need to be together in person and, you know, there was going to be no loss of creativity,” he told attendees. “I would say that the experiment on that is over, and the technology is not yet good enough that people can be full remote forever, particularly on startups.”
I'm biased, but I don't really agree with him. To me, an experiment collects data methodically and comes to a conclusion based solely on the outcome. I suspect he's just stating his own biases as though they were facts—unless there's some rigorous study I've not seen.
My bias is not only that I work better outside of an office, but that I was involved in a fully-remote startup a few years ago that was the most creative and productive environment I've ever worked in, so I have trouble believing those qualities are related to whether a company is distributed or not, and tend to think failures to achieve them at a high level in a remote environment is usually due to other factors.