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0 pointstwelve403y ago0 comments

Well de-facto the balanced approach is here already. If you don't like OpenAI, you can go work for Gitlab. The actual interview is not as extreme as the title, and since Altman mentioned they have remote workers too, he seems to be trying to say that 100% remote for everyone is over.

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surgical_fire3y ago· 2 in thread

> he seems to be trying to say that 100% remote for everyone is over.

That is not a balanced take. In fact, it's pretty extreme.

Plenty of companies are 0% remote, plenty of companies are 100%, and plenty others are somewhere in between.

His take that 100% remote is over is bizarre and somewhat confrontational, without any data to back it up. It's plain bullshit.

twelve40OP3y ago

fwiw my personal take is if 100% remote actually worked for the mainstream companies, all of us would have been outsourced to Kenya or Pakistan at 1/10th the cost instead of taking leisurely dog walks between the zoom meetings in Austin, but this simple thought seems to not have crossed the advocates' minds.

Klinky3y ago

That would assume timezone, language, legal, cultural, governmental, and infrastructural differences don't exist between countries. Outsourcing outside your country of incorporation is a completely different challenge compared to remote work within your country of incorporation.

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