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Zoom and Google Meet existed before COVID. What COVID did was force employers to choose between letting people work from home or shut down. Suddenly, what wa

by dudul 2y ago

Zoom and Google Meet existed before COVID. What COVID did was force employers to choose between letting people work from home or shut down. Suddenly, what was impossible a few months ago became totally fine. It didn't make WFH more viable or acceptable, it exposed the hypocrisy of employers.

BenFranklin100 2y ago
You have an ax to grind. Good luck.
mlyle 2y ago
> It didn't make WFH more viable or acceptable You don't think that things are any easier now that most of the workforce has practical experience with video conferencing and how to coordinate with people in the same office? I think we both learned how broadly possible it was, and also trained the whole workforce in how to do it.
tick_tock_tick 2y ago
Transition the whole team, and paying for a video conferencing software, to accommodate one person who can't come into the office is exactly what an "undo hardship" is.
- linkjuice4all 2y ago
  In pre-Covid times didn't companies face this same insurmountable hardship when opening a second location? What do you call your co-worker that works in a different office if not "remote"? I get that some people really like working in close proximity with others even if their job doesn't really require it - but this really seems to be the case of controlling employers demanding their troops trudge into to an office to demonstrate their value in person - pandemic or disability (or just the general annoyance of commuting to work and all that that entails) be damned.
  - Uvix 2y ago
    Only if the company split teams and projects across locations. If they split the work appropriately it would never came up.
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  - tick_tock_tick 2y ago
    > In pre-Covid times didn't companies face this same insurmountable hardship when opening a second location? What do you call your co-worker that works in a different office if not "remote"? Teams were normally organized so you'd need the least amount of cross office communication as possible because it was recognized how inefficient it was. So yes they were "remote" but everything was organized to make sure you need to communicate with them as little as possible.
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by dudul 2y ago

BenFranklin100 2y ago

You have an ax to grind. Good luck.

mlyle 2y ago

> It didn't make WFH more viable or acceptable You don't think that things are any easier now that most of the workforce has practical experience with video conferencing and how to coordinate with people in the same office? I think we both learned how broadly possible it was, and also trained the whole workforce in how to do it.

tick_tock_tick 2y ago

Transition the whole team, and paying for a video conferencing software, to accommodate one person who can't come into the office is exactly what an "undo hardship" is.

linkjuice4all 2y ago
In pre-Covid times didn't companies face this same insurmountable hardship when opening a second location? What do you call your co-worker that works in a different office if not "remote"? I get that some people really like working in close proximity with others even if their job doesn't really require it - but this really seems to be the case of controlling employers demanding their troops trudge into to an office to demonstrate their value in person - pandemic or disability (or just the general annoyance of commuting to work and all that that entails) be damned.
- Uvix 2y ago
  Only if the company split teams and projects across locations. If they split the work appropriately it would never came up.
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- tick_tock_tick 2y ago
  > In pre-Covid times didn't companies face this same insurmountable hardship when opening a second location? What do you call your co-worker that works in a different office if not "remote"? Teams were normally organized so you'd need the least amount of cross office communication as possible because it was recognized how inefficient it was. So yes they were "remote" but everything was organized to make sure you need to communicate with them as little as possible.
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