> In this particular article, the hunter-gatherer remote work/lifestyle parallel is so forced as to be simply puzzling. First, hunter-gatherer groups were small and required very little coordination, whereas modern companies, when they are larger than a few hundred individuals (I am generous, I might say larger than a few dozen) require coordination overhead--being "on the same" page is quite important--which completely changes group dynamics.
I think that's part of the point. We've moved to a society where large-scale coordination is the norm, but, just like distributed computing, that coordination is a hard problem to solve. Who's to say that the management techniques we tend to implement are the best ones? There are certainly many workers who feel as if work is getting worse, and metrics which point to certain things getting worse or plateauing while capital-P Production rises.
I'm suspicious of easy answers about when humanity had it figured out or simple prescriptions, but if we are interested in evaluating the relatively young modern regime, there are worse places to start than anthropology.