On: Why the Remote-Work Debate Stays So Heated

[bombcar]

It's heated because it's local.

People will scream online because they don't want to have to actually talk to the people in their company making the decisions, because they know by the time that happens it's already been decided.

[gallamine → bombcar]

Can you elaborate? What is 'it's' that's already happened?

[akmarinov → gallamine]

The decision of whether people will WFH or WFO

[bombcar → akmarinov]

Exactly. By the time the decision/discussion is made known to the workers, it has already been decided at the executive level, and there's really no turning it around.