The social and economic costs borne by young people without offices
WFH has a huge difference in result depending on who you are, when you are (in your career), and where you are in a company (of organization).<p>-- For the budding young developer who can&#x27;t wait to show ideas to teammates and demonstrate being a go-getter by asking random questions and finding unaddressed issues to innovate on, WFH might be terrible. You&#x27;re going to schedule time to fortuitously run into the senior person who takes an interest in your idea?<p>-- For the working parent whose productivity has been slashed by 50% and stress has gone up by 50% due to parenting obligations, WFH might be terrible.<p>-- For the middle manager who can coast along and not need to move greatly in his&#x2F;her career, WFH might be great.<p>-- For the developer who works by tickets on very concrete things and this is nothing new, WFH might be great.<p>-- For the small company CEO who relies on force of personality and everyone in the same room urgently working to get something done, WFH might be terrible.<p>There&#x27;s a huge variability in what WFH means, depending on what you want from the situation.<p>For some people, remote working is really not good.<p>And that&#x27;s aside from the point that, when everyone is remote, you&#x27;re also competing with the world who is also remote.   Jobs and job qualifications (and competition) may change...