Re:Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote wor...
by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @10:12AM
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> what makes you happy is a condition in which someone else is unhappy, that person is unlikely to react well
This is a cultural dynamic nobody had strong opinions about five years ago which everyone is religious about today. Opinions are diverse. Fortunately, so are workplaces.
There are plenty of dimensions on which corporate culture and policy vary. This is merely one which went from unimportance to supreme importance for a large fraction of the population in a short amount of time. That outpaced that which individuals and groups take to figure out what they want, message it and then reconfigure. (One option is heterogeneity. But as you mention, that isn’t for everyone.)
This is a cultural dynamic nobody had strong opinions about five years ago which everyone is religious about today. Opinions are diverse. Fortunately, so are workplaces.
There are plenty of dimensions on which corporate culture and policy vary. This is merely one which went from unimportance to supreme importance for a large fraction of the population in a short amount of time. That outpaced that which individuals and groups take to figure out what they want, message it and then reconfigure. (One option is heterogeneity. But as you mention, that isn’t for everyone.)