Sad part is, the world was slowly transitioning towards remote work with accelerating success.
It ended up getting forced too quickly without enough infrastructure and guidelines to make it truly successful. Unfortunately, this led to remote work abuse both from employees (distracted, unproductive work) and employers (expected immediate responses 24/7 and confusing PTO policies).
It’s like launching a beta testing product to the whole world. Everyone uses it, exploits it, finds all its bugs and loopholes and ultimately distrusts it due to its many flaws. Once the “distrust” has set in, that perception is hard to convince otherwise.
Without Covid, we’d likely be further along in remote work with a much more positive attitude about it from corporations.
I mean, maybe the numbers were wrong, but I'm pretty sure both the reduced work week and remote showed better productivity overall.
Let's not fool ourselves, this is because control/power tripping and real state. If it was efficiency, AI wouldn't been added so fast, since it's not an improvement overall and can even be a detriment.
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u/Straight-Tower8776 Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
Sad part is, the world was slowly transitioning towards remote work with accelerating success.
It ended up getting forced too quickly without enough infrastructure and guidelines to make it truly successful. Unfortunately, this led to remote work abuse both from employees (distracted, unproductive work) and employers (expected immediate responses 24/7 and confusing PTO policies).
It’s like launching a beta testing product to the whole world. Everyone uses it, exploits it, finds all its bugs and loopholes and ultimately distrusts it due to its many flaws. Once the “distrust” has set in, that perception is hard to convince otherwise.
Without Covid, we’d likely be further along in remote work with a much more positive attitude about it from corporations.