How Mass Remote Working Has Rendered Management Obsolete
Does your company want to save money? Significant cost savings ahoy!
Remote working has been possible in the grand game of software engineering for many years now, but it’s only really gone mainstream since we entered the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic back in 2020.
As industry after industry adapted to a new normal, us software engineers were quick to adapt as we had pretty much all of the tools and procedures already. Add to that, any truly progressive software engineer prefers much less distraction in their lives, having to share an ‘open’ office, and generally making smalltalk with the people who’d, frankly, they’d cross the road to avoid in everyday non-work related life. Actually, in all aspects of life.
Thanks to the mass adoption of remote working, and the continued push to make it a permanent fixture of working in the grand game, several wonderful revelations have come about over the past two or so years.
Aside: Of course, conventional anachronistic management has tried to rationalise the inevitable loss of control through circulating the phrase ‘hybrid working’ rather than ‘remote working’ and falsely stating that software engineers can only ‘collaborate and create’ in person...
But, the snowball is already moving and gathering pace. Its inevitable journey downhill…
