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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Also worth mentioning from the article,

I work fully in the office. But I think remote work is better for work-life balance. I don't have the option to work remote

Well, why not? Covid showed how great this can work .. but so many companies went back to 20th century norms as soon as the pandemic ended*

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

My experience is that in person and remote favors different sorts of tasks. For me I have both so I think hybrid is the most 'productive', though I'm much happier with the 'remote'.

So on pure productivity, I could see some roles favor in-person.

But if you want to more cheaply recruit and retain, favoring remote is certainly going to help.

I really want a new normal of shorter hours, though that might be a trickier discussion so long as we have very highly utilized labor pool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Productivity has been universally higher on every job that moved to remote, tracks those metrics and makes them public.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Maybe he is a hardware toucher