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Holy shit this is big!
Are you telling me that giving better work conditions to your workers (and therefore making them happier) INCREASES PRODUCTIVITY?!?!
I
AM
SHOCKED.
It's not that simple, there's also esprit de corps and discipline and networking.
Yes, for work productivity right now right here it makes sense that working remotely is good.
That has always been known and normal for people who can work remotely. Writers, or anyone who can synchronize their work through runners with envelopes or, later, fax and telephone.
But also people who can work remotely would always have situations where they'd prefer not to.
My sympathies with remote work are because I'm spoiled and because of retrofuturistic promises of (almost) everyone working like that, my concerns are because you'd want sometimes to see people you're working with, and if many people work in one place and some work remotely, then even if the latter work well, they are ruining discipline.