Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says

Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by tessierashpool on Friday December 01, 2023 @10:34AM (#38487913)

It's more than three years since most people started working from home.

a lot more than three years. remote work goes back decades before covid.

GitHub, Shopify, and Stripe all started as remote companies.

the really annoying thing is not the legions of people who believe it all started in 2020. the really annoying thing is that there's a ton of excellent literature on how to do it, and when it suddenly became mainstream in 2020, the newcomers ignored all that literature.

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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by insom on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:06AM (#38488283)

Shopify only went remote in March 2020, after being strongly anti-remote for a long time. You're right that they have leaned into 100% remote since the pandemic, however.

There were remote employees before (especially in Production Engineering and much of Support), but R&D was almost all in person.

(Source: I miss the productivity of the Elgin Street office ...)

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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by tessierashpool on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:44PM (#38490554)

I'm talking about the period from 2006 to 2008 or so. source: that's when I met Tobi and a few other early people.

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