[leptons]

It's management's attempt at cargo-culting success. But success has more to do with good ideas combined with talent than anything else. It has nothing to do with where the talent rests their butts during the day.

I remember the office days - it was a room full of silent people, all chatting away on Slack. We can do that literally from anywhere.

[dboreham]

I haven't had much same-room interaction with my colleagues since 1996. In fact it was an observation that even though colleagues were on the same campus, I generally never saw them, interacting only via phone and email, that led me to conclude that remote work should be feasible, in 2000.

[leptons]

I was WFH in 1997, using a 56k modem, uploading huge Photoshop print-ready files. I made it work.

I was tired of driving 3 hours a day (which equals a full month per year) in traffic. I told my boss "I'm not coming in to the office anymore in two weeks" without really having a plan for what comes next - either I'd quit or ???. He suggested I could work from home (they didn't want to lose me), and I jumped at the chance. It worked great for 6 months until that company went out of business. I was the only one working from home, so the company going out of business definitely wasn't because of WFH.