IBM says remote working is great after forcing employees to work from office
The no-work-from-home mentality is something I wish would die. I&#x27;ve heard form plenty of friends who&#x27;ve been interviewing with tech companies lately, that it&#x27;s a discouraged practice. I make it a contingency for any job I&#x27;ve considered over the last 5 years. We&#x27;re all adults, if you are worried that you won&#x27;t know what I&#x27;ve been up to, you can check my Pull Requests in our source control system. If you worry that communication is an issue, just watch the Slack channels in which I&#x27;m involved. I mean, I can come to work and put on my headphones and talk to you via Slack, or do so from my couch at home. The most common excuse I get is that &quot;some bad apples ruined it for the whole bunch&quot;. I&#x27;m sorry... a multi-billon dollar company isn&#x27;t kindergarten. It is entirely possible to create a behavior improvement plan for ONE &quot;bad apple&quot;. The rest of us big boys and girls can probably handle it. I just switched team at my current job and have started getting the &quot;well, we don&#x27;t want to abuse it&quot; talk. What??? Abuse? quit treating it like it&#x27;s some sort of privilege. I work. I use a laptop... which means as long as I have an internet connection and VPN access, I can do it from anywhere! If you&#x27;re worried you can&#x27;t get an answer to your question on a moment&#x27;s notice, try Slacking me sometime.<p>I find this very common with managers that are scared that they are irrelevant. (they may not understand what their employees actually do) So they work hard to micro-manage the details they _do_ understand. It&#x27;s sad. I&#x27;m a pretty good self-starter&#x2F;motivator, and when I work from home, I typically start an hour earlier. When I&#x27;m at my desk in the building, I get distracted all day (whether by requests, or just talking to other employees) When will the tech industry learn?