Well, Well, Well, I’d Say Remote Work Has Failed

I sometimes (OK, a lot of the time) troll Medium for article ideas. Because some of my greatest articles are someone else’s clickbait title plus an article that actually delivers on the clickbait title. It’s not the worst way to write an article. The title works, that’s why you clicked on it. I used this technique to write about why <a href="https://medium.com/lost-but-coding/software-engineers-are-in-denial-about-chatgpt-34763b35e6ac" rel="noopener">Software Engineers are in denial about ChatGPT</a>. Although these sort of articles don’t come around too often. On today’s Medium scrolling session I couldn’t help but notice a lot of posts about remote work. Has it worked? Has it not? It’s quite controversial. There are posts both for and against. Like <a href="https://medium.com/illumination/remote-workers-no-longer-hold-the-power-go-back-to-office-e92eb5b967c9" rel="noopener">this one</a>. Although now that I read it again maybe it’s not actually anti-remote work. <blockquote> When Elon Musk bought Twitter, he found the company in shambles. Most of Twitter’s employees were working remotely, and the company was losing $4 million daily. Twitter employees weren’t productive or creative, so Musk gave them the same two options he gave his Tesla employees, “If you do not return to the office, you cannot remain at the company. End of story.” That was the end of the story for many of Twitter’s employees, Musk fired anyone who refused to show up at the office, and his company is more productive and innovative than ever. </blockquote> Do you want to be productive and innovative like everyone’s favourite company Twitter under Elon Musk? Then kill remote work. And then there are posts that acknowledge that remote work has failed but don’t know why exactly. This one says how it’s all <a href="https://medium.com/predict/ai-is-killing-remote-work-5ab2c843fa5f" rel="noopener">AI’s fault</a>. Oh, yes, the blame it all on AI trope. AI is so unfairly vilified. Every mistake AI can make a human can also make. You wouldn’t make fun of a human for making mistakes. But if it’s AI it’s suddenly OK. I wrote about it in my <a href="https://medium.com/@impure/copyright-infringement-is-a-relative-term-258880ec488e" rel="noopener">AI copyright article</a>. <a href="https://andrewzuo.com/well-well-well-id-say-remote-work-has-failed-476fefcb76c1">Visit Now</a>