Everyone else I suspect is going to adapt to this work. There are people who want to work in a office. People who don't. We will need to find ways to make both successful.
Everyone else I suspect is going to adapt to this work. There are people who want to work in a office. People who don't. We will need to find ways to make both successful.
Data point: I work at Google and the amount of control they have exerted over my life is significantly less than any previous job I've had, including random minimum wage jobs in high school.
FAANG companies want high productivity at fairly intellectually challenging work. You get that by treating people like humans, not machines.
Also, tech workers probably have way more autonomy on their schedule than most other industries.
Btw, I am just responding to your comment that "FAANG companies own you life"; not making an argument for remote vs in-person. I personally think that a hybrid model is great, and strongly agree with the currently-top comment by librish[2].
[1] significant control, if not total control
Today I started work at 11 and ended work at 4 because I slept poorly last night. I'm a staff engineer at Google. This "total control" thing hasn't been my experience at all.