I’ll add one piece here - it’s not just the big tech co’s and their employees that matter here. Tons of little companies are looking to big tech and will follow their lead on remote policies - wherever they go.
Yes, exactly! And it's all over the news. Google goes back to office. Amazon too. Netflix says remote work is a pure negative. So definitely there are smaller companies who follow that lead.
Luckily, there are other big co's who embrace remote, like Twitter who says: work remotely, permanently.
And I'm not saying that hey big co's, close your offices. I'm just saying that please give the option for your employees to decide themselves.
For me, it's about freedom, really.
But where's the freedom when Google says that you'll have to formally apply for up to 12 months of remote work in “the most exceptional circumstances."
And I feel that currently we still have the window open – remote work can come out of the niche into the mainstream as we just had the catalyst as a COVID outbreak.
Opportunity like this may never come again... or at least for a very long time.
