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This is honestly extremely fucking obvious.

We can't have a remote work paradigm for two main reasons.

1] C Suite / Managers are narcissistic sociopaths who need to feel important, competent, dominant and better than people, in person.

2] Moving to a remote work paradigm would crater commerical real estate values. This is far from impossible to fiscally manage without catastrophe, but it would expose the immense amount of fraud and corruption going on in that sector.

That's it.

Every other talking point you've ever heard against remote work are rationalizations to avoid these two points.

... the skill set and task set that LLMs are currently most well suited to replace in the workforce are C Suite and Upper Management.

Those are also the most expensive employees and the ones most likely to make catastrophic or consistent mistakes.

But they enjoy having a lot of money and power, so, we get clown world where they do everything they can to gaslight us to avoid realizing this.

There are some things you need a shared workspace for. Most of what we do in the US, having converted largely to an email-and-spreadsheets-based economy, does not.

My full-flavor, everyday workspace requires a comfortable chair, decent internet, and intermittent access to elecricity. It fits in a backpack. All of my coworkers are similarly equipped. Our 40-person startup has a minuscule office that we couldn’t begin to fit everybody in. We are making lots of money.

Return to office mandates should be climate crimes and the people responsible should be punished appropriately. I want to see these CEO ghouls and souless VPs on the side of the road picking up trash for the rest of their damned lives.

Imagine:

• matching employees to jobs they are good at and enjoy, even if not physically nearby (a lot of good people have to take care of family, or have support networks they can’t/shouldn’t leave)
• having a minimum of 30 more minutes a day back because you don’t have to commute
• having a private quiet office to work in. Virtually no offices have private offices anymore.
• having all your accessibility requirements met by default
• being able to have healthier and cheaper lunches because you’ve got your full kitchen

There are things I miss about the office for sure, but I like remote work a lot.

And most of the dipshit CEOs are busy trying to roll out return to office mandates and then are flabbergasted when productivity and worker satisfaction both plummet.

The worst things about being in-office:

1. Shitty bosses who think it's their personal kingdom.
2. Shitty co-workers.

The commons got a taste of freedom and decided they liked it.

If companies would work with their employees to better their lives, productivity would follow even more. AI is not why there is a productivity swing. Look at all all the problems and backtracking being done because of AI, even while there is more of a push for it.

I question some of the numbers. "Productivity" is a word thrown around in my workplace too, but it doesn't mean what the dictionary has for it, it means the numbers are cooked to make things seem great.

How is productivity of an "office worker" measured? I imagine it's somehow deducted from the value of whatever their company produces and sells, but if that is grossly overvalued, there is no productivity gain.