Oy. Can we just admit that some people like remote work, some don’t, and let everyone self select into the appropriate employers? Does anyone ever get anything new and useful out of the comments on posts like this? It seems like they just turn into the same ‘you’re wrong’, ‘no, you’re wrong!’ back and forths that are devoid of anything of substance.
I wouldn't deny there's a lot of low-substance comments, but I've substantially changed my views on remote work from reading comments on posts like this. I used to be much more skeptical that there could be practical business costs to it.
There is no 'wrong' with deciding remote/office/hybrid per se; the reasons for deciding it can be though. I mean they could just say; I prefer the office and that's it; the author is the CEO and decides. The reasons this article states are just more of a management thing than a remote work thing. The CEO/author seems to 'have tried' some type of remote work mimicking an office and wanting the same (overbearing; the reason I cannot sit in an office; it's not the office, it's the management; offices an sich are fine) control of an office situation where you can grab someone at a whim and ruin their productivity for that day.
Remote work requires everyone to change their mindset in the company; it does not mean you can sit in your underwear all day and play with your kids & dogs most of the time while working here and there a few minutes. It also doesn't mean, as a manager, that you can just hit Zoom every 5 minutes and get frustrated when there is no answer immediately. It requires a different way of working; you cannot mimic the office.
