🤔 https://twitter.com/Nithin0dha/status/1385887027078471683

While COVID choking big cities has shown up only now, for years we’ve faced issues like sky-rocketing real estate price, air pollution, long commutes in major cities just because all the companies decided to setup offices there. This pandemic was a much needed speed breaker that will change this trend for good, hopefully.

This pandemic was a much needed speed breaker that will change this trend for good

Wasn’t much needed :))

Of course I didn’t mean it in that sense, but I don’t see how else we could’ve seen companies turn to remote in masses. 🙂

Fortunately most of the jobs in IT can be done remotely, so it makes sense to move away from cities. I returned to my native from chennai because of COVID and took up a remote job. I’m never going back to the cities again. The only thing i would miss is tech meetups and conferences. That is not likely to happen anyway for atleast a year due to increasing cases.

Sadly not many companies are planning the permanent remote move. For instance in Pune, many big companies have a giant office space that they have likely leased/purchased for years (or decades even) and they wouldn’t want such an investment to go to waste by moving to remote permanently. 😬

Well, all those spaces comes with a big maintenance bill every month. If the same amount of productivity is achieved without the office, I would still not go for an office space even if I made the investment to lease it.

Most employers don't mind spending a few extra millions of tax payer money borrowed from governments just to ensure control over their employees. India requires a fundamental cultural shift. While most countries are establishing labour friendly laws such as 40hr - 4 day work weeks, Indian govt announced 45hr work week laws in 2019.

There's in general a catch-22 situation due to lack of trust by employers as well as insincere employees slacking off during office hours. 🤷‍♂️

Honestly its not about trust deficit. There is a real problem of on-boarding and training freshers. Its way more difficult in remote.

Yeah, I agree with some of you here. Fancy banter on twitter is fine. But I've been applying to a few companies, and they still hold on to the "We are currently remote but will go back to office once the pandemic gets over", and I do not understand if I should laugh or pity them, like no one knows when this will end, how and why would orgs hold on to the office work fantasy when they have now worked remotely for a year? I've had some companies even brazenly declare that they prefer the dev show up to office (this was back in Jan/Feb) - It is insulting and goes to show how reckless and adamant organisations can be, to think that they wouldn't give a shit about their employees well being. (Sorry, this was a rant because I find this attitude pitiful and disappointing)

Plus there are logistical issues. Employees complains about bad internet and power cut and there is productivity loss because of that it becomes difficult to justify after a while.

Eventually, remote work will be the feature not the bug.