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Requiring people to work from an office is a legitimate way to run a company, and remote-work advocates are wrong to claim moral superiority over it.
Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said
Subjectremote work
What David Heinemeier Hansson actually said
- David Heinemeier Hansson Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Let's be real here. The modern world we live in was designed and executed from an office. It's a perfectly legitimate way of working.
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Hansson says requiring office attendance is a legitimate way to run a company and that remote advocates are wrong to claim moral superiority. He also says his own career only took off once he could close a door and see nobody for long stretches, and that open offices flatlined his productivity and creativity. Legitimate for others and disastrous for him is a defensible pair, and it is a narrow ledge to stand on.
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