We have a long history of work in the Office, a History over 100 years long, with a significant fraction of the population working there. Lots of companies have experimented and risked with different approaches of management and few remain.
That is not the case with remote work. We don't really understand it yet.
Writing down "remote is not for everyone" implies that we know everything about remote working and our particular model or management style is THE only one, which is not.
It implies that the worker is not prepared for remote when probably it is the company who is not.
In fact, with remote work you can measure the output of each worker way better than in traditional working conditions. Instead of measuring a worker punching in and out and then buying at Amazon or doing facebook at work, you can measure actual work.
In the future, there will be companies that will specialize at remote work, for example they will come at your house and prepare a room for working remotely without distractions, and they will do it, not you, because they know what they do, just like your dentist, and your company will pay the bill.
Lots of things will change, but we are yet in the mindset of Office work, and can not see it.
> In fact, with remote work you can measure the output of each worker way better than in traditional working conditions. Instead of measuring a worker punching in and out and then buying at Amazon or doing facebook at work, you can measure actual work.
Why can't you apply whatever "better" measure you propose for remote workers not to workers sitting in an office?
We have a long history of work in the Office, a History over 100 years long, with a significant fraction of the population working there. Lots of companies have experimented and risked with different approaches of management and few remain.
That is not the case with remote work. We don't really understand it yet.
Writing down "remote is not for everyone" implies that we know everything about remote working and our particular model or management style is THE only one, which is not.
It implies that the worker is not prepared for remote when probably it is the company who is not.
In fact, with remote work you can measure the output of each worker way better than in traditional working conditions. Instead of measuring a worker punching in and out and then buying at Amazon or doing facebook at work, you can measure actual work.
In the future, there will be companies that will specialize at remote work, for example they will come at your house and prepare a room for working remotely without distractions, and they will do it, not you, because they know what they do, just like your dentist, and your company will pay the bill.
Lots of things will change, but we are yet in the mindset of Office work, and can not see it.