There are few points I do not see much discussed so far:
- remote work, for jobs eligible to such model, does need a paradigm shift, it's not sustainable trying mimicking the in-office model in a "virtual" world. I see almost no discussion about that, especially in work division, outcome measuring, hw&sw vs hosted platforms etc terms. IMVHO that's a hyper central point to mainstream WFH for all eligible jobs;
- remote work administrative aspects from beyond-borders (different tax systems, rules, TZs, ...) and "global wages" vs "local wages". Again that's HYPER important because before arriving to something established and well-run on scale enough to stabilize a new model we must expect tremendous backfires in revenues terms;
- hybrid mess handling where companies have offices, with gears etc and have to move stuff back&forth AS WORKERS to handle less people, but still some, in the office and some from remote;
- where to live, considering local services since we do not eat from remote do not have "virtual remote connections" etc, and how such areas can evolve in a reasonably short and mean timeframe because if we choose to relocate we choose typically with a certain care. Personally I choose few years before covid to leave a big city for a mountain area, served enough, near enough to the "civility" etc, I'm VERY happy of the choice even if I miss a significant slice of local in-person acculturated environment for discussions, interactions, surely social life is better here, but at a low cultural level, just parties, not much real technical, political, philosophical discussions aside are possible since simply there aren't enough mass of acculturated people nearby to do them. That's another central aspect: how can our demography can evolve if we are not all together at scale like before?
- how a remote-first society can be organized, at least a general idea.
Just see sabre rattling and crushing between two party, one for one against, is spectacle, but of no help.
In a big city there are enough people to form a kind of apt circle of friends, perhaps around the uni. At least that happen for me, I still talk with some after 5 years but it's not the same as before...
Talking in person with tea or coffee, decide to go out for a common dinner it's a thing, having a call just for acculturate discussion is another... Let's say I feel a bit of lack of "groups stimulus", while I have more time to think myself, draw new ideas, potential projects etc, it's not a net loss but still a certain loss, well compensated by other aspects of the sparse life in the nature. A thing still to be considered depending of age, career, family etc at personal level and another thing to be considered in general social terms to draw a new distributed society, we still need aggregation points, only perhaps not big nor generic as cities, like small poles who will be abandoned/redone from scratch at a certain point in time, but small enough and centered enough to been able to redo and abandon them at sustainable time and costs.
So far I here exactly ZERO serious talks about a future society where WFH became mainstream for eligible jobs even on HN, just to say.
- remote work, for jobs eligible to such model, does need a paradigm shift, it's not sustainable trying mimicking the in-office model in a "virtual" world. I see almost no discussion about that, especially in work division, outcome measuring, hw&sw vs hosted platforms etc terms. IMVHO that's a hyper central point to mainstream WFH for all eligible jobs;
- remote work administrative aspects from beyond-borders (different tax systems, rules, TZs, ...) and "global wages" vs "local wages". Again that's HYPER important because before arriving to something established and well-run on scale enough to stabilize a new model we must expect tremendous backfires in revenues terms;
- hybrid mess handling where companies have offices, with gears etc and have to move stuff back&forth AS WORKERS to handle less people, but still some, in the office and some from remote;
- where to live, considering local services since we do not eat from remote do not have "virtual remote connections" etc, and how such areas can evolve in a reasonably short and mean timeframe because if we choose to relocate we choose typically with a certain care. Personally I choose few years before covid to leave a big city for a mountain area, served enough, near enough to the "civility" etc, I'm VERY happy of the choice even if I miss a significant slice of local in-person acculturated environment for discussions, interactions, surely social life is better here, but at a low cultural level, just parties, not much real technical, political, philosophical discussions aside are possible since simply there aren't enough mass of acculturated people nearby to do them. That's another central aspect: how can our demography can evolve if we are not all together at scale like before?
- how a remote-first society can be organized, at least a general idea.
Just see sabre rattling and crushing between two party, one for one against, is spectacle, but of no help.