David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)It’s amazing how many LinkedIn posts say some variant of ‘remote work is bad because remote teams can’t do {thing remote teams have been doing successfully since IRC was the state of the art in communication for remote workers}’. And what they mean is ‘I don’t know how to manage remote teams’. It takes a special kind of arrogance to believe that just because you can’t do something that other people have been doing for decades, that thing is impossible.
Anthony@[email protected] I very much dislike this genre of LinkedIn post. I pushed back against one once, using the LinkedIn-appropriate angle that we have globe-spanning supply chains that allow us to buy goods from almost anywhere in the world. Why not use the same connectivity to work with people all over the world? I even used LinkedIn language, like "securing talent" you'd have access to no other way.
The person had no real response to this. They waved their hands and said something vague about "company culture" or "this is just how I feel about it".
I came to believe these statements are not coming from a reasoned place. The people making them don't really know or care what remote teams can or can't do. They have some kind of prejudice about it, and it's the prejudice that's speaking.