Are distributed teams the way of the future?

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> Dell saved more than $39 million over two years after encouraging remote work, and Aetna saves $78 million annually by urging employees who can work remotely to do so, according to O’Duinn. “This is a competitive advantage over companies that pay for and operate physical offices.

It obviously makes sense for companies to let people work from home right now, but it's hard to imagine people won't be expected to return when everything's over in most cases. IBM, which let employees work from home for decades, ended up deciding offices are just better: https://qz.com/924167/ibm-remote-work-pioneer-is-calling-tho...

Doesn't that really depend on what kind of company you are? I can see how it would be hard with a huge company like ibm where someone could probably get by for years without doing anything. But at a smaller company people can tell whether you're working or not.

this can happen at small companies, too. i've heard of devs who got remote jobs at startups and basically just didn't do them.

This seems more like a problem with management only knowing if people are doing their job by noticing their presence instead of measuring their production, which is really the only way remote work can be done successfully at scale, IMO.

I thought the future was we don't have to work at all.

Office --> Remote --> UBI

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