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That’s plain false. For the last 10 years of my dads career he was remote full time because the technology was finally available. Your experience wasn’t univers
by dividedcomet 2y ago
That’s plain false. For the last 10 years of my dads career he was remote full time because the technology was finally available. Your experience wasn’t universal and some people have grown up where it’s normal and expected for a parents office to be at home.
- notyourwork 2y agoI’d disagree and tell you that you fall into a minority. I’m fully supportive of remote but to suggest it’s normal implies some majority, or close to. That’s not been the case.
- AlotOfReading 2y agoAccording to this pre-covid article, up to 25% of US workers did "some or all" of their work from home [1]. That matches with my memories. [1] https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12097 https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12097
- kcplate 2y ago“Some or all” in that article is really “at least 1 day a week”. I would offer that in 2024, people would not consider 1 day a week at home (or even 2-3 days a week) a “remote work” position. We call that hybrid work nowadays. So while this article says remote work was increasing, and I am sure it was incrementally in certain tech, marketing, and sales positions, I don’t think its a good example of remote work (as it is defined today) becoming a norm then. Pre-covid, I worked around 1 day a week remote, but was in the office the other 4 or traveling for work. I believe I knew maybe 2 people in my social and business circles back then that I would define as having a “remote work” job (by our present definition).
- notyourwork 2y agoAnd that doesn't indicate its normal, it just suggests that at times people have lives outside of work.
- kcplate 2y agoPlain false? You are thinking that it might be normalizing for a certain class/type of work, but “plain false”, please.