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by oDot 1843 days ago
I wrote a booklet[0] about being thrown into remote work, and as I gathered, really the only objections are the likes of this article, something along the lines of "We had this good thing in the office and now we don't have it therefore we need the office".

They all fail to use the important lesson Henry Hazlitt thought us:

> The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

Looking at the direct effects of being in or out of the office is very naive. They go further than that.

[0]: https://www.emergencyremote.com/emergencyremote

2 comments

That booklet is nice!
That’s more of a monograph than a booklet.
What a weird objection.
It’s more of a nitpick than an objection.