Visiting An Office Really Is A Time Wasting Exercise
Remote workers have stepped outside the corporate matrix and can now see objectively what’s really going on.
The case for remote working has been put many times over the years — most especially since the recent pandemic thrust it into the mainstream and made many companies take notice even though management resisted it vehemently in many cases (for all of the usual reasons you’d expect if you yourself have spent any time in the Grand Game of Software Engineering¹).
The primary benefits of remote working for the progressive software engineer revolves around freedom from continual middle-management surveillance, bizarre and slightly untoward dress codes², the expected deference to notional management types, and having to partake in HR’s mandatory fun exercises (and eating the corresponding soggy lukewarm and tasteless Kool-aid, sorry, pizza).
However, now that a significant proportion of us progressive engineers (and those from many other related technical³ professions to boot) have been spending elongated periods out of the office something else has come to light and it’s something that’s really highlighting how better off we all are, collectively, by minimising our physical presence in an office.
Remote workers have discovered that after putting up with the usual expensive and…
