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that’s just fine and good for you, but please don’t impose your preferences on the rest of us.
by g96alqdm0x 3y ago
that’s just fine and good for you, but please don’t impose your preferences on the rest of us.
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- californical 3y agoWhy not? Companies will eventually sort into ones where likeminded people are together. Some will be more friendly to remote than others. If I want to work in person with people, I’ll join a company that agrees. If someone wants to be remote, they might have to join a different company.
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- raizer88 3y agoBecause firms that are on-site-only don't scale unless they pay top of the line money to move people. Access to a remote workforce is a force multiplier that will be more relevant the more time we go forward.
- Levitz 3y agoAssuming that there are no differences in productivity, working on-site is borderline morally evil. It's unhealthier (loads of sleep deprivation out there), it's bad for the environment and its costs are higher. We can argue all day if the perks of in-person work are worth the cost, but if there aren't any perks besides "I just prefer it that way" I don't think there is even a valid discussion to have. We are talking some of the largest CO2 reductions possible from the average fellow together with more free time, less usage of infrastructure and possibly changes in the housing market. A corporation doing this "just because" is comparable to a corporation purchasing mattresses to burn them in an open field "just because"
- CalRobert 3y agoI love remote work but I don't know if I'd call it morally evil to have people on site. There's something to be said for being in the same physical space as your peers and the social bonds that form, etc. But the only way I commute now is by train and/or bike, most commutes to some godawful office park hellscape in San Jose are agony.
- geraldhh 3y ago> There's something to be said for being in the same physical space as your peers and the social bonds that form indeed it seems that effective remote only work requires a more coherent team or more formalized processes.
- HPsquared 3y ago"Net negative" is a more neutral way to put it. The way it's stated, if there is no productivity benefit and the employee doesn't like going to the office, then it's a loss for the employee and no gain for the employer. Overall a net loss in utility, no weightings needed in that example.
- Workaccount2 3y agoI see stories of people who have worked remote at a company for a year or so, and still have yet to see the faces of any of their coworkers. I get that dev work has a disproportionate amount of basement dwellers, but man, that is still so crazy to me.
- CalRobert 3y agoFor what it's worth I can have interesting, fulfilling relationships and friendships with people I only know online, both in and out of a work setting. But it is fun to hang out in person.
- potta_coffee 3y agoI haven't met a single one of my coworkers. About 4 of them are scattered around the US, the rest are in Europe, India and Southeast Asia.