Please, I’m just genuinely curious.
But I’ll like to help anyone wanting to answer by categorizing the reasons into like 4: You can choose any, or come up with your own reasons.
- You believe remote work is just a trend, and will die soon
- You think it’s just a bubble waiting to burst
- You think remote work will never be successful
- You believe remote work is still in its infancy/ (it’s early) and you don’t want to jump on the train just yet
- You’re just uncertain about the whole remote work thing
I’m thinking of using your reasons to work on a bigger content (ebook) for my long piece here.
I feel like this was already settled in the 1920’s, https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-introductiontobusiness/chapter/the-hawthorne-studies/
WFH might give people the ultimate optimization of comfort/environment etc but what’s more important in satisfaction and producrivity is who you’re working with and alongside
“Mayo discovered that workers were highly responsive to additional attention from their managers and the feeling that their managers actually cared about and were interested in their work”
This has nothing to do with remote work and 100% to do with good management. The study even said they changed up the physical environment (in 2023, means change to remote work) and productivity even increased when they felt their managers cared.