Shopify Goes Digital by Default
So I&#x27;ve now been WFH for 2 months and honestly I hate it. Work was already flexible enough such that if you wanted to WFH you could. By convention, people would most often WFH on Wednesdays. I liked this timing of people doing it at the same time.<p>But communication and collaboration is just much harder work remote and you can&#x27;t change my mind. I&#x27;m sure you can work hard to make it almost as good but it&#x27;s never going to be better (IMHO).<p>I of course miss the meals and snacks.<p>Many people who work at these companies live in big cities where they don&#x27;t have huge amounts of space and it&#x27;s not conducive to being productivity, particularly if you live with other people, if you can&#x27;t get some form of separation.<p>Those of you who are claiming this will be some form of revolution I think are naive. I&#x27;ve found that advocates of WFH are mostly motivated by that&#x27;s what they want to do more than anything else. I mean that&#x27;s fine but it often leads to thinly-veiled, self-serving, biased arguments and proclamations of the benefits to everyone.<p>If you need an office anyway you don&#x27;t really save anything by WFH unless you oversubscribe your work areas (eg hot-desking) and that has its own problems.<p>All-remote might work best. I&#x27;ve seen this claimed but have no direct experience with it. I do know that mixed WFH and in the office is nearly always detrimental to the remote people and the team as a whole (IME).<p>I just don&#x27;t think a company with 50,000+ employees can operate this way indefinitely.