Imagine a world like ours suffering a pandemic but there are no streaming services. The movie theaters shut down and people are forced to watch entertainment from the internet in any way they can cobble together.
Now along comes someone and says watching from home is "a pure negative".
Mr. Hastings says, "Debating ideas is harder now." just as in that alternate no streaming services world someone might say, "full immersion in the entertainment is harder now."
Of course without streaming services one would have no concept of binge watching and so watching from home would have less upside. Just as in a world where working from home tools like Uclusion are unknown it might seem that asynchronous collaboration is very difficult.
Early on in any technological change skeptics can poke fun. The real surprise is a visionary like Hastings having so little vision on this subject:
If I had to guess, the five-day workweek will become four days in the office while one day is virtual from home. I’d bet that’s where a lot of companies end up.
Why not four days virtual from home and one day in the office? If WFH is such a negative why would people want the one day from home? America is very early on in this experiment and already working remotely is working much, much better than predicted. As new technology built for asynchronous collaboration becomes more wide spread the case for a high percentage of time in the office will only decrease.
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