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SUCHINTAN DAS • Edited

I understand your concerns Besworks. If you take a closer peak into the situation of current market then you will understand work for home is pretty new concept for the civilization. But yet it's powerful, as it gives the company a chance to hire from anywhere sometimes beyond their countries. But at the same time, with no cost for moving the candidate to office, no cost for any devices or utilities for the employee and sometimes no cost for any infrastructure.

In earlier days, if someone had to start a company they had to setup a workplace first, then recruite people through visiting different campuses and get an establishment for your company 🤷.

But times have changed ⌛, in today's date you can start a company in days, go remote and recruite talents worldwide, no workplace or office cost. 💰 No need to provide any working systems 💻 to them as they can have their own. Isn't it quite cost effective ?

Yes, it is you can start a company 🏛 with no money, one of my friend actually did it. The company is now 1 year old and till now he haven't had to pay a single penny. We work there as we know the startup will get successful one day and we have freedom to work from anywhere.

See times have changed, you need to understand slowly people will start building their own company rather than joining one 🤔. It's a legit fact that companies will slowly have less people onboarded but with great talent from worldwide and soon we would have no office culture.

So, if you are knowledgable enough then I would suggest you to start working on your dreams 💭. There are two ways to see the outcome of any situation. A good side and bad side.

The bad side is ofcourse that jobs will deplete in one company but many new will also open for you. The good side is now you have a cushion to work from home, on your own system, with working over your dreams side-by-side 💁. And so do the companies also have.

There will be less to no company culture, you work you get paid. You don't work , you are fired and a new candidate replaces you. Harsh truth, but this will be soon a reality.

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aben

But times have changed ⌛, The question is does the time exists and we don't ?
I mean you are making it look like either the new normal thing, or the necessity and 100% sure it is better in terms of "productivity", "cost", etcetera,

I don't agree on anything of these ! Quite the contrary,

And if I may, I think the best option to sustain civilization you are mentioning, is giving the option of 1 to 2 days per week for developers and nothing more.

I think, (my opinion :)) it is counter productive, less serious, and normalizing remote work because supposedly developers can do 100% of the stuff from home and imply that on the other employees is catastrophic.

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SUCHINTAN DAS

I completely understand your point aben 🤔. And I respect you view, yes it can be a way to look after this thing 💁.

But I think you are somewhere around looking into this from the prospective of a senior developer. See, 1-2 days per week an option for developers to come to the office is something which would ofcourse be a good thing for experienced ones. But! The question is why would companies keep their offices just for people to visit 1-2 days of every week. From companies prospective this would not be a justified reason to spend their capital on offices 🏛.

Secondly it would be less serious nomalizing remote work as developers 🤷 can do 100% of the stuff from their homes. There are two things I would like to correct here 🚫, not only developers can work remotely but all jobs like content writing, graphic designing, product management, and all business roles like business analyst. Just leaving couple of jobs which are needed to have you go outside ( not office ! ) are not possible to be done remotely 💻. So, most companies will have no reasons to have offices which applies no office culture and work culture ⚠.

I am a tech person, I never said it's going to be good or bad. ( Yes I pointed out the good and bad sides though ). I know changes are needed , and people can't stop development or change by fearing them of uncertainity ⌛. Work from home would be the future. But yeah , it may end something called work culture and maybe freelancing. Just think when employees are working like freelancers , then why need a freelancer separately. The reasons are pointed in the above comment itself.

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aben • Edited

I meant 1-2 remote and nothing more. Not the opposite. I'm against remote work being the new normal!!!

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SUCHINTAN DAS • Edited

Ok I see aben. Cool then we are on the same boat.