WFH will be the hallmark of future successful civilizations and the human race.
When commuting, all there is to see is a bunch of wasted energy being consumed for the sake of CRE prices. A bunch of wasted asset mileage wear and tear on vehicles and roads. A bunch of wasted safety and risk related to needless fossil fuel burning, and potential wrecks on the road. The prosperous future civilization will be optimizing energy consumption. Home residential energy consumption is more efficient and is more easily retrofitted to get energy from renewable sources. This energy could instead be used for greater compute and critical infrastructure. The roads would be more clear to allow for safe driving and open the pathways needed for 18 wheelers and large shipping. Overall, we have a lower greenhouse gas emission, lower cost for employees and companies, lower safety hazards on the road, and the ability to rapidly build societal infrastructure improvements due to more available and cheaper fossil fuels to power construction and open roads for transporting material efficiently. It blows my mind when people like Elon Musk are so against WFH, but then also want us working on mars and be multi-planetary. Before that happens, you’re gonna need people working remote to have cross-planetary work. Of course, it isn’t in his best interest as WFH negates the need of electric vehicles and self-driving. He wants to have his cake and eat it too.
Exactly. I will work fully remote for the rest of my career. I will never commute back to the office. TC: 105K
You could go remote today and be done with it. Others like me love to be in office with God forbade actual humans
I disagree because it's not enough. Future successful Civilization will have a sufficiently engineered transportation system that commuting is fine because it doesn't appreciably damage the planet. Partly through proper city design and partly through utilizing technologies that don't even yet exist. Of course it's possible there'll be more WFH, but it wouldn't be for environmental reasons.
Why use all of that energy inefficiently requiring people to drive to a building and then consume resources in that large building? Why endlessly expose those same people to safety hazards on the road? All of that time commuting could be used working. The most successful civilization optimizes energy consumption, that is a fact.
No, that's stipulation about the future, not a fact. The most successful civilizations currently maximize energy consumption and waste it because they can. The most struggling civilizations conserve energy by necessity (as an over used cliche, look at Africa).