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Remote teams aren't a perk or a fad, they're the future of work | Intridea Blog – via @intridea

With Yahoo's recent decision to disallow any and all remote work the remote work debate has reached a new fever pitch. DHH weighed in with his thoughts mostly around trust and what signal you're sending your employees. To me the more troubling idea isn't about what signal you're sending to your employees but what path you're setting for your business. Remote work isn't a fad, it's a requirement for the future of productive creative work. The oft-used phrase "software is eating the world" to me boils down to a core concept: software and automation are gradually (and in some cases quickly) replacing all forms of non-creative endeavor. That means that over time the number of "ass in a chair" jobs will dwindle to zero. Office environments are great for these types of jobs because the primary measure of output is time . Put more time in, get more work output. When that's the ca...

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