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Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

WFH is not a new concept, nor restricted to office work. Priya Satia's book Empire of Guns reports that 2/3rds of company-employed Birmingham blacksmiths in the 1700s worked from home, and were more productive for it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nothing I said contradicts that. But it is the case that there are a wide variety of technologies which make WFH even easier than it may have been before.

If people did it before, they should keep doing it. But now, even more people should be able to WFH.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Supporting argument, not counterpoint