la_joconde

Re:How Remote Work Died: A Girardian Tragedy in Corporate America on Thursday July 31, 2025 @09:22PM (#44752082)

For the same reason everyone else reads HN during working hours, you're an unfulfilled worker bee and you don't enjoy your job enough to be fully engaged in what you do.

Re:How Remote Work Died: A Girardian Tragedy in Corporate America on Thursday July 31, 2025 @12:16PM (#44747138)

I think deep down many of them know they provide zero value to a company and project their own fears of being a fraud. If an employee is not building a product/service or selling a product/service, he or she is part of the vast and bloated department of the "Bullsh*t Economy", its the largest department of every company.

Re:How Remote Work Died: A Girardian Tragedy in Corporate America on Thursday July 31, 2025 @12:07PM (#44747050)

Interesting, you go around the internet bestowing an imaginary permission for people to have ideas when they align with yours (WFH is bogus) and imposing some kind of imaginary restrictions on thought that doesn't align with yours (Girard offers insight).

Are you aware of the bizarre egocentrism this kind of psychology implies?

How Remote Work Died: A Girardian Tragedy in Corporate America

Posted by la_joconde on Thursday July 31, 2025 @08:56AM
from the self-post dept.

In 2020, remote work felt like an inevitability. Studies showed productivity didn’t collapse. Employees were happier. Companies saved on real estate. Tech workers—especially engineers—started doing something radical: living well.They fled San Francisco for Lisbon, New York for Buenos Aires, D.C. for Kraków. They claimed the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, slashing their tax bills. They worked...

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