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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by tick_tock_tick on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @09:43PM (#30536487)
Yes, I feel confident saying by and large they are. I've noticed a massive drop of collaboration with our switch to remote during this time. Sure there will be exceptions, mostly from in person companies being very bad about it, but there are fundamental limits with remote that don't exist in person for collaboration.
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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by Wiseacre on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @11:16PM (#30537115)
Then the problem will solve itself won't it? The in-person companies should clearly out-compete the remote ones.
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Re:Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other off... by rightbyte on Thursday March 03, 2022 @04:12AM (#30538860)
"Natural selection" in companies is so noisy I don't think we will ever see a clear trend in this case.

Covid showed that as a lower limit remote wont wreck companies atleast. I am convinced remote is a little bit better for the company (unless hardware/machine/industry centric) and alot better for many employees, especially in hard commute places.

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