WFH works only in certain niche areas - when the work you do can be done alone on your laptop without any heavy collaboration required. I sincerely wish that the current meme of "WFH FTW" dies out before it removes one of the last ladders left for the Western masses to prosperity.
I can understand why capital class is in favor, they after all get labor for cheap and get to break the inconvenience of having to pay higher compensation. I just don't understand why labor (eg. software engineers) doesn't see the inevitable writing on the wall. But again, people also had a rose-tinted view that companies will never do layoffs and high TC will perpetuate forever. Hopefully, people are realizing now that the capital class will fuck them over at the fist chance they get.
Offshoring/outsourcing is decades old yet it didn’t kill office work pre covid. Good staff, when required, requires effort to hire. If you don’t need it, why do it?
This will be true until new or aggressive companies decide to embrace or retain WFH and so take staff and particularly revenue from in-office companies. Wound the beast and the beast has to respond or die.
Of course, if this doesn’t happen then it was a covid induced dream. Personally, I think the lower overhead and wider hiring range justifies WFH but that’s me.
> lower overhead and wider hiring range justifies WFH
agreed about lower overhead. Wider hiring range - only if you view workforce as cogs who have merely transactional relationships. Teams having smaller and costlier, but in-person interaction will outcompete larger and cheaper, but fully-remote teams.
[+] [-] RestlessMind|3 years ago|reply
I can understand why capital class is in favor, they after all get labor for cheap and get to break the inconvenience of having to pay higher compensation. I just don't understand why labor (eg. software engineers) doesn't see the inevitable writing on the wall. But again, people also had a rose-tinted view that companies will never do layoffs and high TC will perpetuate forever. Hopefully, people are realizing now that the capital class will fuck them over at the fist chance they get.
[+] [-] jleyank|3 years ago|reply
[+] [-] jleyank|3 years ago|reply
Of course, if this doesn’t happen then it was a covid induced dream. Personally, I think the lower overhead and wider hiring range justifies WFH but that’s me.
[+] [-] RestlessMind|3 years ago|reply
agreed about lower overhead. Wider hiring range - only if you view workforce as cogs who have merely transactional relationships. Teams having smaller and costlier, but in-person interaction will outcompete larger and cheaper, but fully-remote teams.
[+] [-] dolorian|3 years ago|reply