What An Office Lacks…

Dr Stuart Woolley
CodeX
Published in
8 min readMay 5, 2022

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How life as a software engineer has improved since the widespread move to remote working and why we should fight hard to keep it.

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A plea to non-progressive employers — those who insist on penny pinching tactics, those who think that they can hire good engineers at discount prices, and those who think that we’ll all come running back to your panopticon offices full of gratitude just for the sheer pleasure of working for you.
Spoiler: we won’t.

Caveat Employer

Granted not everyone in the grand game has been able to take advantage of remote working — primarily due to the short sightedness of, mistrust from, or need for employers to maintain a top heavy managerial class — but those who have, at least temporarily, have experienced radical changes in their lives.

A careful look at the improvements remote working can offer to the life of a software engineer, on many levels, should cause any company to take a second look at their policy choices before it’s too late and they lose valuable staff to more progressive companies that have already seen the light.

Recruiting, generally, is hard. Most especially this is due to the mediocre quality and technical ability of your average recruiter or hiring manager themselves who tend to pay more attention to speed of recruitment, size…

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Dr Stuart Woolley
CodeX

Worries about the future. Way too involved with software. Likes coffee, maths, and . Would prefer to be in academia. SpaceX, X, and Overwatch fan.