Re:Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormal...
by burlesona on Sunday March 08, 2020 @10:27PM
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I think it comes up because so many posts about WFH / Remote work have this angry / preachy angle arguing as if remote is the obvious and only desirable future, and that anyone who thinks otherwise is a Luddite.
Discussions on this topic are more interesting when they’re focused on the trade offs and how best to optimize, rather than what other people “ought” to do.
Re:Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormal...
by endorphone on Sunday March 08, 2020 @10:40PM
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Yet in the history of discussions about remote work on HN, overwhelmingly the top comments have been negative or posting this strawman.
This is a strawman that always appears in every remote work thread and it is always treated at face value: If anyone proposes that they can/should work from home, somehow will reply that everyone can't work from home. Then cue a procession of people giving their tale about how they don't like working from home.
No one is saying, or has ever said, that everyone should WFH. But somehow the notion that some people WFH is threatening to people that don't want to / don't approve of it, and it's always cast in this binary manner. It's a completely dishonest tactic that is boorish.