I've worked remotely for quite a while, and this is why I beg to disagree. When you work with a functional team, you teach the less experienced, your team works as a team - functioning at a higher level than the parts.
My team has been back to work since the COVID rules relaxed, and the shape of our programs is appalling. A lot of people have retired in the last few years, and with no one to train them, they have had to depend on online training, the number of corrections we have had to make, and I mean very basic and costly mistakes far outweighs any perceivable benefit.
One positive thing that has happened, is our ability to work from home, means that when winter weather makes commuting to work dangerous; we can meet virtually. When someone is sick, they can still (voluntarily) do some work at home.
But, as a whole - this has been a net negative. To paraphrase Musk "they can pretend to work elsewhere".
I've worked remotely for quite a while, and this is why I beg to disagree. When you work with a functional team, you teach the less experienced, your team works as a team - functioning at a higher level than the parts.
My team has been back to work since the COVID rules relaxed, and the shape of our programs is appalling. A lot of people have retired in the last few years, and with no one to train them, they have had to depend on online training, the number of corrections we have had to make, and I mean very basic and costly mistakes far outweighs any perceivable benefit.
One positive thing that has happened, is our ability to work from home, means that when winter weather makes commuting to work dangerous; we can meet virtually. When someone is sick, they can still (voluntarily) do some work at home.
But, as a whole - this has been a net negative. To paraphrase Musk "they can pretend to work elsewhere".
Amen! you laid it out well. Work from home is a total negative overall. The only good point is that snow days are no longer a day off without work.