Remote Work Won | Prime Reacts

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[VinitNeogi]

Me spending 3 hours per day commuting to office just to attend zoom calls with my colleagues who are all from another timezone

[epotnwarlock]

95% of in office conversations: "dude have you played <new game> yet?" "what do you guys want for lunch?" *team spends 15 minutes sharing panda related memes*

[orderandchaos_at_work]

The commute is the nail in the coffin for in office work. I save several thousand English pounds and 500+ hours of travel time every year. Not to mention the hassle of cancellations and delays. Do not miss standing out in the pouring rain and freezing cold.

[daves.software]

The thing for me is that my in-office days are a hassle and don't add any value. Why does it matter if I go into the office to sit on MS-Teams calls, or if I stay home and sit on MS-Teams calls? Only 1 person on my team is local. Everyone else is full-time remote from other states.

[professornumbskull]

Prime when article writers preface what they want to say to lighten the blow: "Give me the meat and give it to me raw"
Prime when article writers are blunt about everything from the get go: "This article is gonna be stupid, I can feel it"

[seancooper]

The office is where my colleagues are, why the hell would I ever want to go there?

[Ikkepop]

For me as a dad of a young child, there is nothing but upsides to remote work. I try to go to the office, but I just can't feel any benefit to driving 2 hours instead of being with my kid for an extra 2 hours or just getting bit more sleep. There is seriously only one other person I ever speak to in the office and rest of my team is in another country so we have to voice chat anyway, and that requires to find a damn room instead of just connecting and chatting immediatly ...

[sweetheart]

Some banger opinions from this video:

- Statistics aren’t real
- This author is being hypocritical for sounding upset but not caring when commercial real estate executives get upset
- Plumbers need to go into the office
- Real estate is a good investment IF you can afford to pay for it but it’s not a way for the rich to get richer

[koh-i-noor]

6:30 - laughs about 68% ppl prefering remote and dismissing the result on the basis that statistics are very inaccurate. 33:40 - runs a poll with his own audience (where remote wins or is on-par with hybrid).

[hahabanero]

As a introvert i thank god for remote work. I can work with ppl as long as i don't need to see or talk to them every 15 min. Just like remote work is not for everyone, working in an office is not for everyone too.

[miscbits]

I can't relate to a lot of the takes here. I've been remote working for 4 years now and I cannot see myself going back. When you said towards the beginning that there are things in the office that happen that you can't replicate at home, I actively tried to think of something like that. When I work in office, I collaborate less with coworkers, I get less work done, and I have to commute an hour each way + figure out what to eat for lunch + somehow avoid people who come to my desk to bother me while I am focused on something.

When I am at home, I get to design what my workday looks like and choose when to interact with distractions. When I am in the office, I am completely beholden to whoever wants to walk up to me and ask for a favor which happens quite often. Maybe it is because my office sucks/my company is terrible at setting up a good environment for work.

Honestly, after the topic of Faang came up and you mentioned Sushi, I think it shows that your view on in office work is maybe skewed. Think about all the people who are working in poorly lit remote factory-esc buildings. I never worked anywhere where they were feeding me free sushi for lunch, and I don't plan on it. I am a game dev, and up until remote work, I've worked in some shitty environments where I felt uncomfortable the whole time.

[oShwavyo]

“Never believe statistics.” — Primeagen, 2024

[MrDgf]

"I think you're the one gaslighting us"
The sources were cited and the studies were shown. If you're not willing to read them, fine, but it's very unwise to claim the author is lying if you're not doing your due diligence

[colto]

no one tell him, that the slaves were fed too

[shy-watcher]

I'm pretty sure when Prime is being triggered by his family trauma of "owning real estate" he's not talking about what this article actually discusses (downtown office space). I don't think any owner of a skyscraper changes the lightbulbs in the building and does renovations themselves...

[aj-jccv]

So I was explaining to someone what office life is like as a dev, we sit there in an open plan office each with headphones on listening to music. But do you discuss things, I was asked? Oh yes, frequently. How? Using slack. Absolute madness.

[Shrxth]

Lol he really banned the guy for calling him out

[ruroruro]

9:08 holy shit, welcome to the echo chamber

> original article references some statistics to make an argument
> "statistics can sometimes be wrong, so you can't trust this"
> someone in the comments points out that if he doesn't trust the statistics, he can read the sources
> spends like two minutes max looking at the links
> "i'd have to comb through these to find it" which is too hard apparently
> "why would you believe this bullshit without checking the sources yourself"
> bans the guy

wtf is Prime talking about here? Yeah, sure, statistics can be bullshit, and you shouldn't blindly believe everything you read on the internet. But isn't it a bit absurd to accuse the article author of lying/misrepresenting/using bullshit statistics and then act offended when somebody asks you to substantiate your accusations.

Idk, maybe these statistics *are* actually bullshit, but why would you assume it by default? The author provided his sources, at this point shouldn't the burden of proof lie on Primagen?

Edit: lmao, Prime got pwned by his own poll results at the end. So at the very least, the provided statistics were a pretty good predictor for his viewerbase. Prime is on some mega copium.

[ericl]

I'm pro flexibility. If someone works better remote let them do it. If they work better in office, let them do that.

What I don't like is the in office people just want me there as a body because it "feels empty".

[theondono]

By the way, there's 2 types of hybrid: "Here is an office, come whenever you need", and "Here is an office, you're required to be here x days a week".

The second is just stupid.