Paul Millerd
@pmillerd
full-time remote work has positive and negative effects that many people don't talk about - positives: more freedom to do stuff, ability to work less, "skip out on work" - no incentive to brag about this - negatives: losing interest in career progress, comfort/apathy with less work (one person described this as "remote handcuffs" (thinking they may not be able to recreate this), undermining career networking early in careers - again, no incentive to "complain" - people will say you should be grateful
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Paul Millerd
@pmillerd
i think for the average person, remote work may not be a great transition in today's working world I suspect future generations will have much better norms built around the non-work aspects of our lives but if you are suddently a remote working 50+ year old, thats a huge life reinvention that probably isnt that exciting
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gae
@gae
I thought all I ever wanted was to work remotely, that’s much earlier than covid, but now that I have it, I sometimes struggle with it. I went over the shock of the loss of identity, now I just don’t feel stimulated enough. To be noted that I work from home as a personal consultant — perhaps had I still been interacting within a team things would be different. However, I wouldn’t be running the show on my terms. It’s struggles all the way down, and it’s OK!
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