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Remote work in IT. Blessing or silent despair?

Aleksandra Rodionova on May 26, 2022

More and more employers are switching to fully remote work after the pandemic and abandoning expensive offices. Even those who have never considere...
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Ben Sinclair

I know it doesn't work for everyone, but there have always been remote workers in software companies.

In my company, we've always had a couple of developers who worked from other countries. It's never been a problem... until everyone's doing it and now suddenly there's a push to get people back to the office.

All the things you say are valid, but I wonder (and I direct my wonder to middle- and upper-management types) why these considerations weren't important before. It's almost as if when it didn't affect their experience in the office, it wasn't a big deal.

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Aleksandra Rodionova

That's true, most of these points are valid regardless if it's remote or on-sight. I just think how it's even more important, because a lot of big companies went completely remote, and not facing this experience before, they don't see what's going on underneath quickly rising numbers, developed by happy productive invisible people.