There is a huge demand for IT people.
And we all learn and know we can do it remotely as we are doing for almost 2 years.
I do get some people Want to go to the Office.
But the majority of tech scene is Introvert.
We are not going back.
We have better machines, espresso, coffee food and gym at our own house.
Now we are "saving the climate" not doing commute. It works both ways /s
For example, a Toto washlet. I visited Japan in Feb 2020 and purchased a bidet promptly afterwards, along with starting WFH at the onset of the lockdowns. After more than a year, it's hard to imagine going back. :-)
Surely enough, one of the first few things to become scarce after the toilet paper was the washlets.
Strange that our "carbon free" companies are getting crazy about coming back and even more crazy now because nobody wants to go back to the cage.
Sorry but no.
I want to live where I want to live and I will work same or more efficient than I did before WFH.
No that cold free sandwich will not do it
I’m not sure why the /s as this is a legitimate argument in favor of WFH.
It is objectively better for the environment and reduces climate-impact so governments and corporations who have been green-washing should be embracing the new reality.
Instead we get unsubstantiated claims of better water-cooler conversations driving innovation and other baseless claims.
- 100% of gold is strip mined literally raping the planet and leaving the mined earth completely unusable, while polluting water supplies.
- The primary alternative to Bitcoin is the US Petrodollar system which relies on proof of violence backed by the most powerful military industrial complex in the history of the world to ‘liberate’ oil-rich nations who dare trade oil for anything other than USD. (See Iraq, Iran, Libya, etc.)
- Gladly ignore things like Blood diamonds, the environmental and social costs of mining Lithium and other rare earth elements used to build the so-called green economy.
- Bitcoin uses mostly clean energy and increasingly so over time thanks to incentives while Gold, Platinum, Copper, etc are never held to the same ESG standards.
- Bitcoin gets demonized for its energy consumption while using half the energy of YouTube, an ad-infested spyware-ridden cat video site and less energy than the world’s hair-dryers /s
Edit: downvotes but no comments, sad.
Totally agree with it 100% btw.
ESG is just corporate/banker control disguised as rainbows and sunshine.
Gotta love the doublespeak Orwellian world we're in.
While your rant was a bit off topic, it would still be fun to see the arguments. But no, you'll just be down voted.
As Peter Thiel asks: “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
Bitcoin's adoption is about 0.5% right now. By the time most people will agree with you it will have to be over 50% (about 7 doublings, which is 7 years), and Bitcoin won't be as great investment anymore as it is now.
I suspect that there's significant variation here: widespread WFH means fewer people driving ~1.5 hours a day to their office park jobs, but it also means fewer people taking public transit to urban centers. The former is an ecological disaster; the latter is probably slightly better than the same number of people air conditioning, etc. their independent houses and apartments.
queue articles on nytimes on pay discrimination for those who WFH.
We all know the best way to get raises is to switch companies.
No switching means you will get maybe 5-8%