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Does your company have web app where employee can choose what they prefer, submit it, and done?, or bunch of management have to approve that request?

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Nope, there’s no management or oversight of who is in and when.

> If I had to put money on which company will thrive and which one will seriously regret it’s decision a year from now… the answer seems very clear

Well don't I look stupid for initially being skeptical... surely your company, with "no management or oversight" over its employees, is clearly set up for enormous success!

He was answering in regards to this particular option of going remote.

"Bad" company: Growing pushback from employees asking great questions… for example, why they should be required to sit on zoom at an office, conferencing with their remote colleagues

Why wouldn't this occur, in even greater magnitude, at a company with zero accountability regarding the whereabouts of the employees? Where an employee can wake up any morning and just decide not to come in? Where nobody can say with any certainty who will attend a meeting, or be in the building, or available to be on a call, at any time? Where nobody has any responsibility to ensure co-workers schedules line up, or that the person responsible for Task A completes it within a timeframe to allow the Task B person to meet his/her deadline?

You are conflating showing up at a physical office with being accountable and doing your work. True, my employer doesn’t care about my whereabouts, but they do care that I’m contributing, available to my colleagues, and adhering to reasonable schedules/deadlines. The reality is that for knowledge workers, none of this requires regular physical presence in an office with Zoom, Slack, and a calendar. This is a fact that’s been proven and accepted in my workplace for years now and there’s no reason to go back.

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