AI is killing remote work

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3 points·noch··11 comments

AI or not has no influence on the remote work argument imo. A quick search seems to indicate that this guy is the ceo of gumroad. In other high in a management tree, they are always trying to make arguments to stop remote working. No surprise that this is his conclusion.

If AI kills a job, it kills a job, regardless of where that job is located.

I can't see what RTO brings outside of some vague "improved collaboration" which is hard to quantify, and can be done remotely with common tools and practices.

In what world is AI killing remote work?

That sounds like an interesting interview question. I would never hire someone who thinks like that.

Sounds like they might be running out of money and trying to put an AI-flavored spin on it.

They did ban NSFW creators from Gumroad earlier in the year...

Hmmm...AI is a hell of a drug.

Sounds like cope, tbh. If they are really seeing such amazing productivity gains, I'm guessing they are also reducing to a 3 hour work day, right?

That’s not how productivity gains typically play out. Instead, the “saved” time (or ~5 hours in your example, assuming a 8 hour workday) can be used to increase output. So that would mean you still work 8 hours but get ~13 hours’s worth of output (8 + 5).

will workers be paid more to reflect that higher output?

rhetorical question, we all know the answer

Not necessarily because labor is, like other resources, subject to supply and demand.

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