> Today, as some companies are changing their remote work policies to be return-to-office, there seems to be a lot of resentment about this, and I don't really understand why.
I mean, this is a ridiculous argument supporting remote work because it works so much stronger the other way.
You literally had companies change centuries worth of corporate work for overnight to switch everyone to remote work.
If anything the people who want full time return to office have a much stronger argument that companies have suddenly changed everything on them, as opposed to the people who are complaining that now that things are normal companies are reverting the changes they made for a once in a lifetime pandemic.
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” - Vladimir Lenin
Sometimes it takes a black swan event to reveal how broken something is and how things could be better another way.
It used to be the norm in the US for children to be allowed to work in coal mines and factories too (apparently in 1900, 18 percent of all American workers were children under the age of 16[1]), but after some photos were taken of them exposing just how bad the situation had gotten, it helped shift public support to pass legislation barring child labor. Nowadays I doubt hardly anyone would be in support of that now.[2]
I mean, this is a ridiculous argument supporting remote work because it works so much stronger the other way.
You literally had companies change centuries worth of corporate work for overnight to switch everyone to remote work.
If anything the people who want full time return to office have a much stronger argument that companies have suddenly changed everything on them, as opposed to the people who are complaining that now that things are normal companies are reverting the changes they made for a once in a lifetime pandemic.
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