People love working remotely
This piece has the feeling of being written by &quot;every Friday is Hawaiian T-shirt day&quot; after his employer went all remote and he needed a new task.<p>I have worked remotely more than not and it&#x27;s not ideal. I suspect that if teleportation machines existed, then remote work wouldn&#x27;t be a thing. Once you leave the office for the day (or leave the house to go to the office) then the logistical problems start (where do I find an affordable place to live.) Logistical problems for employees become logistical issues for employers. Working remotely is a trade-off and much of the time it works well enough.<p>I&#x27;m guessing that most early remote workers get relatively cushy setups with allowances for equipment and good salaries. As remote becomes more common, then I bet that gets squeezed. Employers shouldn&#x27;t expect that the average person can make it work. If you don&#x27;t have a dedicated quiet office area then it gets real difficult. Pets are a distraction. Other people in the home are a distraction (and it&#x27;s not their fault, they have the right to &quot;be at home&quot;.) If you have a significant other living at home full time and that person is in a grumpy mood, then good luck.<p>I feel that people who can make it work are those who either live in a cave with no other living creatures or they have the bread to get a big enough house and funds to create an operations center in a dedicated room. Everyone else should at least get a desk at a co-working space.<p>There&#x27;s also a lot which gets lost in the communication of remote working. The communication you do have is much more mercenary. A group of special operators can carry out a mission together and even do so with mostly radio silence. But these people lose out of a lot of the more interesting elements of civilian life. Alice is an avatar and emoji&#x27;s who can get stuff done in remote space. But you don&#x27;t get to see her world class key short-cut skills from which you could open up a whole new way of thinking about your own operations. You don&#x27;t see the real pressure your boss or manager is under and you get far less information about how things work because they won&#x27;t be casually confiding in you at the water cooler. You don&#x27;t need a NORAD display to show major events and weather conditions around the world to see what challenges your collaborators will be up against in getting things done the coming day.<p>Remote work kind of sucks. Where do I take the survey? ;)