The Winners of Remote Work
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The Winners of Remote Work
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#2https://archive.is/Vltrp
They attempt to answer "How will this affect the average tech worker?" ... with ... "In June, Google told rank-and-file employees it would reduce the pay of those who choose to work remotely or move farther from the office." and they then say "Should this worry the most in-demand engineers and product management? Probably not."
They finish with "But in the long term, remote work’s promise is more ambivalent." which seems like about the only real thing we can all agree on. We'll know how this all shakes out in maybe 5 or 10 years?
What was pretty interesting, and something I've never heard before was "some Peloton instructors earned more than $500,000".
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#3The only winners of remote work will be those who are self disciplined enough to get work done without outside supervision or motivation.
That goes for every single field that does remote work - learning, teaching, Knowledge work etc.
But let’s be honest - some people need the motivation of a workplace — and that’s ok!
We are all different. Im somewhere in the middle… love working from home but it’s easy to get distracted with side projects, feeding birds, germinating seeds etc.
I realize when I need to really buckle up, I go in the office for a few weeks and that puts me back on track with the major projects.
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#4The only winners of remote work will be those who are self disciplined enough to get work done without outside supervision or motivation. That goes for every single field that does remote work - learning, teaching, Knowledge work etc. But let’s be honest - some people need the motivation of a workplace — and that’s ok! We are all different. Im somewhere in the middle… love working from home but it’s easy to get distr…
(For me) while I also get distracted from work while at home, I find it is about the same amount as in an office. The biggest difference is the distractions are far more healthy and productive than the ones I'm left to in an office.
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#5This article really isn't about remote work writ large, it's about websites/organizations that provide platforms for individuals to sell services to consumers. The fact that you can make popular workout videos from your home is orthogonal to the behavior of consumers on the Peloton platform.
It's an interesting and important observation that good communicators win disproportionately as telecommunications get better - e.g. because recorded music is a thing, as a songwriter/guitarist I'm competing with Frank Zappa for mindshare. But this just isn't about remote work. Feel like I got clickbaited.
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#6> There are already examples of how gains are captured by the few and not the many.
The New York Times - "Feel Bad About Everything, Always"
Remote work is amazing, net on net it vastly improves lives, reduces commute time / traffic / car pollution, reverses the decades long trend of economic activity centralizing in a few boom cities, and I believe will reduce inequality longterm as workers will be able to get good, high-paying jobs no matter where they live.
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#7This article really isn't about remote work writ large, it's about websites/organizations that provide platforms for individuals to sell services to consumers. The fact that you can make popular workout videos from your home is orthogonal to the behavior of consumers on the Peloton platform. It's an interesting and important observation that good communicators win disproportionately as telecommunications get better -…
It's got to be clickbait. If there are winners, then how many workers are losing by working remotely? It seems obvious that the vast majority of people win big by not being forced to commute into a full day at an office where they would rather not be.
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#8The only winners of remote work will be those who are self disciplined enough to get work done without outside supervision or motivation. That goes for every single field that does remote work - learning, teaching, Knowledge work etc. But let’s be honest - some people need the motivation of a workplace — and that’s ok! We are all different. Im somewhere in the middle… love working from home but it’s easy to get distr…
I think you are totally right about the self motivation part. I’d wonder though is it just that people who aren’t motivated are easier to see in a remote work setting vs the office as you judge people by their tangible outputs alone. In the office setting this is obscured but the same cohort aren’t actually doing anything more or less.
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#9The article starts talking about professions where working remotely allows to service more or in fact all possible customers in the world at once (e.g. musicians, teachers).
That is not the case for programmers, consultants and contractors (or more precisely, the Internet already had that effect for website/app/SaaS builders without need for remote work).
What will happen for them is that employees from poor countries and outside main cities will be better able to participate, increasing work offer, but also it will be easier for businesses outside main cities to find workers, increasing work demand.
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#10The only winners of remote work will be those who are self disciplined enough to get work done without outside supervision or motivation. That goes for every single field that does remote work - learning, teaching, Knowledge work etc. But let’s be honest - some people need the motivation of a workplace — and that’s ok! We are all different. Im somewhere in the middle… love working from home but it’s easy to get distr…
I think you are totally right about the self motivation part. I’d wonder though is it just that people who aren’t motivated are easier to see in a remote work setting vs the office as you judge people by their tangible outputs alone. In the office setting this is obscured but the same cohort aren’t actually doing anything more or less.
I can be as unproductive at work as I can be at home, but coasting in the office is so exhausting, I'd rather do work.