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> 3. Lots of management are socialised to prefer working in offices I would rank this as 1 on the list.

• disgruntledphd2 3y ago
  Yeah, depends on the management. Honestly though, lots and lots of people/companies can't work remotely. It probably works for a higher proportion of tech people, but even I, who's been full time remote for four years, and basically remote for the majority of my career, still prefer in-person for bandwidth purposes. My current team are all scattered across different countries, but when we had an offsite and a problem, it was so incredibly nice to be able to simply pop my head up and ask someone a quick question.
  • lapcat 3y ago
    Is the main problem non-overlapping work schedules? That's an issue, of course, but the tradeoff is that the company's potential talent pool is severely limited if all hires are forced to relocate internationally.
    • disgruntledphd2 3y ago
      Nah, it's just so much quicker to speak across a desk relative to sending a slack message. Let's be honest, I love my current team and company, and we have enough overlap (5 hours difference in the worst case) that it's relatively straightforward. Like, in-person is substantially higher bandwidth. Remote has lots of things that make up for it, but let's not pretend there's no difference.