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Re:Damaging Results of Mandated Return to Office – It's Wors... by throwawaylinux on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @10:46PM (#36515730)
That's not the point I'm making and I have to say it's pretty outlandish if it seems that way to you.

The point I'm making is that it's not because an organization is "not ready" that remote work is not permitted. Implying there is some set of steps or purchases they need to make and then they are ready. It's because the people who can make the decision don't want to.

I thought that I repeatedly made it clear that I made no value judgement on the remote work and didn't claim that is a bad decision to make.

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Re:Damaging Results of Mandated Return to Office – It's Wors... by n4r9 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @07:21AM (#36518957)
You've consistently asserted that most companies would find it easy to switch to remote work.

I absolutely disagree with this. At least I disagree that most companies can do so and be confident of maintaining productivity. I believe it requires a big shift in organisational and operational processes and attitudes within the company.

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Re:Damaging Results of Mandated Return to Office – It's Wors... by throwawaylinux on Thursday June 29, 2023 @09:47PM (#36529535)
No I haven't, and "easy" is not a well defined term here. What I said is that it's not a matter of being ready or not, it's a matter of choosing to or not. And lots of companies can and actually did choose to do that at very short order when covid was causing shutdowns, so if you want to make extraordinary claims to the contrary then you'll need to bring a lot of evidence.
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