Originally Posted by Niara
As an aside... the extreme vast majority of people I've interacted with over the past three years have all, more or less unanimously, reported that working remotely has been the biggest boon and improvement not only to their lifestyle, but also to their effectiveness, their efficiency and their productivity, as well as being a massive reduction in stress. They discovered that so much office time wasted in various meetings was, indeed, wasted and unnecessary, and that most of them found the idea of going back to the way it was before to be a genuinely horrific idea. In fact, the only people I've encountered who didn't find it an improvement were middle-management workers whose primary job was wrangling team members into status reports, productivity meetings and other organisational faff - they found their jobs harder to do while workers were working remotely, while those workers were swiftly discovering that said wranglers were largely unnecessary at the end of the day.
That is true now because all companies have mastered remote work. There was an akward adaptation period for some months though, where everyone has to figure out how to be as productive as before. You were in an office with a lot of ressources and the day after you were at home with only your subpar laptop to work with. No sudio for recording, no mocap for animating, no powerful machine for coding, no beautiful screen and tablet for drawing, the list goes on. As a network administrator, I had to introduce big changes I wouldn't have to do if it wasn't for a global pendemy. It wasn't a smooth process for many.

Last edited by snowram; 15/10/22 09:56 AM.