Charlie Munger on remote work for Software Engineers: "those people are never going back" "If your job in life is to get on the telephone and talk to other engineers all over the world while you solve problems, why do you have to do it from an office?"

About a month ago I wrote about the human psychology of having perceived benefits taken away. It’s foolish and it won’t work. And many people perceive work from home as a huge benefit, and for many it is. You can read that article here:

It’s really a challenge for tech, companies & some big players still believe people should come back and work from office but IMHO, people who knows their tech & value will never go back! Recent example I was in discussion with a big tech for DA role but discussion ends here 😉

It will take time for things to settle and everyone to accept all this. But once they start losing access to great talent, e.g once enough firms accept this reality, others will be forced to in order to compete. That’s how I see it anyway. The knock on effects will be big.

This is funny because I just got an email from Snap trying to highlight how great it is and in tiny text at the bottom of the email is says no remote is available for anyone. So I respond I'm remote only and get radio silence lol.

As a communication and social media company, promoting a certain lifestyle, their position makes no sense. I predict they walk that back, and this was just a way to do layoffs without actually having the guts to let people go.

It's similar to the fight against Uber et al in most cities Really it's inevitable, you might win a few battles in the short term But without doubt, you are going to lose the war

That’s a great analogy. It’s an order of magnitude better, for most people, it’s really hard to dislodge that.

I’m never going back

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Been saying it for years, if you can do your job in an office on wifi, you can do it remote or from home. Plus opening your job to remote staff you open the talent pool.