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This is just "works on my machine" applied to businesses. If most businesses are struggling with remote work, saying "just get good at it" won't help - they would if they could. Fact is a lot of companies are going to be forced back to in-office because they can't stay competitive otherwise.

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This just confirms what I suggested. A "works for me" situation is a clear indication of something wrong with the environment rather than the method.

I think we agree. WFH itself can work with the right environment, but I question wether certain kinds of companies are realistically capable of fostering that environment. Personally I think that if a company finds that it can't do WFH effectively, it shouldn't even be doing tech, and should contract that work out to a company that can WFH. It's like, a code smell for business.

Companies struggle with it because they're not really bought in and have a bias against it. WFH weakens control over the labor pool.

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