<story><title>The damaging results of mandated return to office</title><url>https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/the-damaging-results-of-the-mandated-return-to-office-is/454043</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diego_moita</author><text>I wish we stopped with the &amp;quot;companies should do this&amp;#x2F;should do that&amp;quot;. Existing big companies are too comfortable and lazy for the remote work revolution.&lt;p&gt;Remote work is a radical change in culture and work organization. It will take new companies with new workflows and organizational ideas to make it work well. We&amp;#x27;re not there yet. Managers don&amp;#x27;t understand yet how to do it, they need to read a lot of documentation (Gitlab&amp;#x27;s is a good start) to start grasping it.&lt;p&gt;But it will happen and the companies&amp;#x2F;startups that crack remote work will be at great advantage. Employee satisfaction is just a small part. There are other, bigger advantages: access to a bigger talent pool, talent retention, saving money, etc&lt;p&gt;And then, after that comes a revolution in cities. Walkable, safe and cheap places with good internet have a lot to gain (e.g. Portugal, Thailand). Unsafe or expensive cities have a lot to loose (e.g. San Francisco).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Uehreka</author><text>…what?&lt;p&gt;Sorry to harsh the vibe, but that second paragraph reads like something out of 2014 when people were first reading REMOTE. At this point remote work is nothing new, and while many large companies don’t like it, many large companies are going along with it (and developing the culture, documentation, etc.) because it works well as a way to attract talent. And some startup founders are trying to go “full Musk” and call workers’ bluffs and cement their control, so I don’t think there’s a clean dichotomy here.&lt;p&gt;As for walkable cities, I agree that they would be awesome, but they do not just naturally flow from a remote work culture. And having lived in Thailand for two years I hard disagree about it being a walkable place with good internet (it is cheap, which is nice, but you don’t get what you don’t pay for).</text></comment>
<story><title>The damaging results of mandated return to office</title><url>https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/the-damaging-results-of-the-mandated-return-to-office-is/454043</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diego_moita</author><text>I wish we stopped with the &amp;quot;companies should do this&amp;#x2F;should do that&amp;quot;. Existing big companies are too comfortable and lazy for the remote work revolution.&lt;p&gt;Remote work is a radical change in culture and work organization. It will take new companies with new workflows and organizational ideas to make it work well. We&amp;#x27;re not there yet. Managers don&amp;#x27;t understand yet how to do it, they need to read a lot of documentation (Gitlab&amp;#x27;s is a good start) to start grasping it.&lt;p&gt;But it will happen and the companies&amp;#x2F;startups that crack remote work will be at great advantage. Employee satisfaction is just a small part. There are other, bigger advantages: access to a bigger talent pool, talent retention, saving money, etc&lt;p&gt;And then, after that comes a revolution in cities. Walkable, safe and cheap places with good internet have a lot to gain (e.g. Portugal, Thailand). Unsafe or expensive cities have a lot to loose (e.g. San Francisco).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alistairSH</author><text>Except almost all white-collar offices (in the US at least) went remote during the first 2-3 years of COVID. Most did so successfully. Yet, many now want to return to traditional office work with little evidence that’s a better way to work.</text></comment>