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’m a big proponent of work from home for no other reason than the vast majority of workplaces are extraordinarily uncomfortable.
Open Concept offices are common and studies continually show they reduce productivity by up to 40%. Half your productivity goes to the wind because someone honestly thought having a giant room with desks for “collaboration” was good idea.
Then there’s “culture”. The biggest myth of work is the notion that workplaces have culture. There is no culture, there’s just what management wants you to value. Which is what they value. That’s what work culture is. The adoption of the values and dispositions of the people who own the company. Who do not care about you and would pay you less if they could. Most companies would employ slaves if they were legal, which tells you all you need to know about “work culture” and the values companies want you to adopt.
Then there’s just the useless politicking and interpersonal bs. People get harassed less and are far away from actual harassment and harm.
Something like 1/4 women get harassed IN the workplace… so there’s that…
Give me remote any day. Once I went remote I never went back. The positives just don’t outweigh the negatives.
It’s just the haves controlling the have nots.