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giving a lil sneaky peeky into my column from yesterday:
1/ "The growing number of calls for permanent work-from-home even after this pandemic ends are unequivocally misguided. A shift to widespread remote work would severely hamstring innovation, creativity, and cooperation.
1/ "The growing number of calls for permanent work-from-home even after this pandemic ends are unequivocally misguided. A shift to widespread remote work would severely hamstring innovation, creativity, and cooperation.
2/ As the automation of so many jobs—mine included—rapidly picks up pace, we ought to hold tight to those singularly human aspects of work, which are at times our only advantages over the robots.
3/ When we WFH, we often cede temporal and spatial proximity—moving around and talking to different people stokes our brains to think differently. We can't do that right now, at least not how we used to. I talk to people for a living...
4/ ...and even I feel the brain drain after eight hours of alternately staring at my roommate and staring at the wall in front of my home desk. When have your best work ideas hit? In solo whiteboard sessions, or in passing conversation over team coffee breaks? I know my answer.
5/ Maybe someday we’ll have adequate tech to recreate the kinds of kitchen run-ins or happy hours that have birthed some of our best ideas. But we don’t right now. This shift to remote work happened without the necessary infrastructure to make it as fruitful as in-person work.
6/ There’s a reason the last five months have felt like the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. We were wholly unprepared, but we dove headfirst into an inferior system anyway, trying to convince ourselves it was an improvement. It’s not.
7/ Choosing to keep the model as the status quo after it’s safe to return to the workplace would be a mistake—and continuing to invest in that inferior model right now would be, too."
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