| This is absolutely ridiculous statement. I have been invited to Google HQ several times. There is an entire culture there that is to blame, working from home is the smallest of the problems. I would say risk aversion is the biggest problem by far. Google culture is also radically woke. Google is made by PhDs that always wanted to isolate from the world, they had always very weak customer support, everything was automated and had no contact with the customer so they ended isolated from the needs of your customers and lived in their own world. On one side you see super brilliant people there. On the other you see total disconnection with the needs of the people because they were isolated on purpose. Google was designed so people could almost live on campus, most of the time. So you could have 30, or 40 year old adults that are actually like children, not taking responsibility for their lives, isolated from the world most people live. How are you supposed to improve the world when you do not have incentives to improve it because you are not feeling the pain? Your world is totally different from most people's. This was obvious to me as an outsider. It is difficult to se culture from inside as you get used to it. The old generation never understands. Science improves one funeral at a time. I have worked remotely most of my life. We can work harder than anyone else precisely because we do not need to spend one/two hours a day commuting. We can focus without distraction for hours, control our working environment and do the deepest work. But like anything else, you need to learn how to do it right and it will take decades before traditional companies learn how to do it. |