The working-from-home delusion fades

It is not one size fits all, that is the outcome of the experiment. Use your best judgment for you and your team. If someone truly benifits from WFH, and you arbitrarily limit them without good reason, they'll probably be unhappy, less productive, and liable to leave.

Every single one of the guys who writes these articles owns office real estate, guaranteed.

remote workers: “This is great and I’m more productive.”

managers: “I was skeptical but honestly this is fine.”

upper brass: “We’re so far removed from the trenches that we are completely divorced from reality, so this sucks and needs to come to an end.”

folks who own office buildings: “Thoughtful essay about how the results are in from the work-from-home experiment, I bet you can’t guess what conclusion I’ve come to”

I am sick and tired of group stereotyping. Not every worker is the same, not every job is the same. Employer should retain and reward individual employees based on their actual productivity, not micromanage their lives. If work from home is less productive but desirable for other reasons, save money by hiring remote workers for less. For decades companies have been outsourcing to India and claiming it doesn't matter. Surely US employees within a couple of hours time difference and able to travel for frequent in person events can do at least as well?

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