Remote startups will win the war for top talent

Sometimes I think I'm the only person who thinks office work is better than remote work. Ideation, collaboration, socialising, these are all things that work much better in person, for me anyway. Personally, if I ran a physical business, I'd want workers to be in the office, and that's not being selfish, I genuinely think people work better face to face. Give remote work a few more years and you'll just see increased loneliness, depression, and segregation. Eventually, everyone will want to go back. Remote work shouldn't be what we strive for. We should be striving to create better relationships in person.

This is so true. I think about this over and over again.
Multiple job offers fall short because they demand people meet in a physical office. I understand not everything can be remote, but if you want the right people, you need to slack on these requirements and show that you're willing to go the extra mile to headhunt people.

Businesses are venturing into outsourced remote workers, while employees are wanting to shift into a remote work setup. Today is the digital era, and we should maximize the use of technology for the benefit of our business and our people. Outsourcing to OBP Philippines outsourcing will enhance digital collaboration making everything flexible, and improving employee productivity. Outsourcing is booming and is expected to grow further in the next couple of years.

I work with a fully remote company, actually a true pioneer in terms of working to make remote work a viable reality for people. I've also been a remote freelancer since a lifetime ago. I still don't think remote is a silver bullet. It's great, but I find the current "future of work" theme around remote to be ridiculous in its agenda pushing.

Remote is a bad thing in large corporations. It is great if you're solo-ing on your project, or building some small team for a nice new project. It's great if you're freelancing on project work or on contracting, but its not great if you aim for building an old school career. Careers are the result of people knowing and trusting you. To get people to trust and know you you'll spend so much time in zoom or on a plane that the idea of "remote" quickly becomes a joke.

Humans are social animals and despite the modern efforts to digitalise this aspect of humanity we still need the skin on skin of a handshake and the face to face of saying "Hi!". We want to really now who the other person is and no amount of Slack or team focused apps can replace this. I will admit that, personally, I root for the failure of Meta's endeavours :) but way beyond my personal preferences, I stick to my point: in large orgs costs are saved by remote workforces at the expense of individual success stories.

Most people want a community and thrive in it. Remote work has the potential to build community but this potential is very difficult and expensive to attain. We will, 100%, have the success stories. Watch for costs in these success stories. In a large corp getting people to collaborate at their best potential, keeping people engaged and highly productive is expensive - when they're all in the same place. When you have them scattered across the globe the costs grow, well, ... not linearly. The alternative is to have all these remote minions nobody ever sees and swap them out for people more motivated by the rising energy prices than career building. I am not saying this will be the default in a remote only world, but it's very easy to save on costs with this approach.

Given the cost and availability of housing where many startups are based, its probably wise to at least give people the option.

Agreed. The pandemic showed us all that remote working (despite some minor drawbacks) does work on the whole. I wouldn't work for a startup that enforced office working, it just shows how blind they are towards employee wellbeing. Hybrid work is a good middle ground but I'd say within the next 5-10 years, more companies than not will be remote.

For sure!