OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the remote work ‘experiment’ was a mistake—and ‘it’s over’

The CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI said one of the tech industry's biggest mistakes was thinking "startups didn't need to be together."

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@seldo

I already knew that dude was a bit of a doofus, but wow.

The corp that I work for has adopted a hybrid structure: Desks in the office for those that want to park at them, but everybody else is WFH, and here have been the effects:

1. Less sick time used; Less vacation time used
2. Higher productivity
3. Higher morale

I get how a guy who trying to sell AI as an employee replacement might not find those to be factors in its favor, but he comes off as the kind of guy who drinks his own Flavor-Aid.

@seldo oh also 4. Lower real estate costs. Kinda a big one.

Also what I suspect amounts to the reason why Apple, and other companies in their position have so strongly opposed WFH: They have a new building to rationalize the cost of, and no cost-effective way to get rid of it.