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If you're an employer: Why have you never considered going remote (that is if your team can work remotely)? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by suaibme1@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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Please, I'm just genuinely curious.

But I'll like to help anyone wanting to answer by categorizing the reasons into like 4: You can choose any, or come up with your own reasons.

You believe remote work is just a trend, and will die soon
You think it's just a bubble waiting to burst
You think remote work will never be successful
You believe remote work is still in its infancy/ (it's early) and you don't want to jump on the train just yet
You're just uncertain about the whole remote work thing

I'm thinking of using your reasons to work on a bigger content (ebook) for my long piece here.

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[–] Omnitemporality@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

You're doing two experiments at once.

To abstractify one level out, other than company culture and your specific wishes, what is to stop the remote employees from having to work exactly the hours that in-house employees do, and not having to answer before/after-hour calls, thereby potentially decreasing their "significant lack of focus" via psuedo-circadian/worklife rhythm normalizations?

Because I think that this is what OP is getting at, and I'm pretty sure your main response to such a thing is the general perceived lack of motivation of workers; which may or may not be wholly incorrect, I don't know, you're the managing party.

Still a potential psychological blind spot to look for though; take for instance:

If we imagine a hypothetical linear regression model that outlies before+after work hours on whatever litmus test you use to mentally fortify your endeavours against remote workers, what might the results be?

Again: you can't test for two things at once.