Bosses are fed up with remote work

This again. If this was truly the case, then they would put an immediate stop to the offshoring &#x2F; nearshoring that has been rampant in the industry for the last 20 years.<p>Not a single push back against the H1B&#x2F;Offshoring happening in the US. Keep it up corporate america... you going to have your next competiton being created by you from those remote workers banding together.

Employees are fed up with managers who exist only to justify their existence as well.

A yapping line manager throwing endless status update meetings for filling a spreadsheet must be <i>easily</i> automated even with today&#x27;s AI, far more than replacing actual productive jobs such as software development.<p>The only thing holding this back is empire building pyramid constructions.<p>They think in person rather than zoom will save their ass.

Can they not solve this problem? This shows the lack of creative problem solving that is widespread across companies. They&#x27;ve known only one way to work and they&#x27;re convinced it&#x27;s the only way, when in theory there is probably multiple ways of achieving the same amount of productivity, and it&#x27;s probably just a shift in work ethic and culture. This is of course assuming the work can be done remotely, like any job that has digital deliverables and meetings can be done online. All the pieces of the puzzles are there.

TFA claims remote workers work 3.5 hours <i>per day</i> less than in person workers. This makes me question the whole article honestly.<p>On one hand, I am not surprised given the tiktok remote worker trends during early pandemic. But I doubt this holds for all job types, workers, or industries.<p>OTOH, I work 10-11 hrs per day because I can. It&#x27;s relaxing to have extra time or to get ahead and not have to commute. I can work when I&#x27;m productive (early AM). When I can&#x27;t, I work 8 and it feels light. That flexibility is incredible and I&#x27;d bargain hard for it.<p>I refuse to believe I&#x27;m an outlier I&#x27;ve only ever worked with folks like me.

I joined four companies since COVID. All but the latest company did onboarding remotely. All of them made me take twice as long to ramp up on my duties compared to an in-person experience<p>Also, virtual onboarding are TORTUROUS (for me). You&#x27;re in a Zoom all day, sometimes for multiple days, trying your best to look into the camera and absorb mountains of information while trying very hard to not be distracted by the wonderful things happening in and outside of your house.<p>If I&#x27;m going to be in all-day meetings, I much prefer to be in an office with other people when they happen.

No, they’re fed up with underperforming fraudsters that work 3 hours per day and have the productivity of 10% of proper working employees, yet still get paid 200k+

I just had to fire a remote worker for egregious and persistent timecard fraud. I was all about remote worker before that happened.