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It’s interesting. Would a hardware company like Atari, or Apple, succeed if all the execs were fully remote? My gut feeling tells me no.

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This is confusing to me because most Apple execs don't live in Asia.

Foxconn execs do.

And Apple's manufacturing involves far more than just Foxconn.

It worked for Charlie's Angels :)

They were clearly in the service industry, though.

For Robin Masters, too :)

There is a reason why we talk Metaverse/XR in Industry 4.0. Being at the place of production might not be needed in the future, anyway.

sitting with a headset on for 8hrs a day seems worse than being in a cube

In a company owned headset, that measures your resting heart rate, blood pressure and eye movement with a dystopian sensor/camera setup to monitor your body language.

Could measure your brain activity to give you a notification to stop slacking off.

Or detect non typical brain activity to alert a manager to check the worker isn’t playing games or looking at memes.

You can do it already by installing malware on employee computers.

I'm not aware of hardware companies where most office workers work in the actual factory location (or often even the same company that produces the items).

If the argument is "well you might need to interact with a line worker at the factory" working from home vs. an office not at the actual factory isn't really any different?

I rather wonder if anything would really change if the execs would disappear completely, some companies might actually be better off ;)

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