Getting personal for a minute:
If a company describes itself as "a family"

RUN! It's a huge red flag.

I'm 54 and am of the generation told to go to college, land a good job, work your way up "the ladder," and remain until you retire.

I quickly discovered that is capitalist propaganda.

During my 20-year corporate career, I experienced overt and subtle racism, and denial of career advancement opportunities.

I witnessed inexperienced and untrained individuals be hired and promoted due to nepotism. I've witnessed folk sleep their way to being promoted. I've dealt with toxic bosses, inane office politics, and shifty business practices.

Several years before the pandemic, I began working for myself, remotely. BEST decision I've ever made. My intent is to never work in a corporate office again.

Companies do not care about you. Period.

#capitalism #anticapitalist #remotework

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I suspect one of the big reasons so many companies are so hostile to the concept of remote work is that it forces them to judge people based on the quality of their work, rather than any of the other factors they use to discriminate.
@TheGreatLlama Absolutely! It's also about power, and many companies have built office complexes or have leased space that's almost sitting empty. Can't have that. Look at Apple's "spaceship" HQ.