There was a longstanding joke in the software biz: ‘the remote revolution is just around the corner!’ The irony was that, despite the fact that remote work was tailor-made for the industry, the software business was the last place such a revolution would ever happen. Managers were very straightforward: they wanted their employees in the
A letter to Representative Adam Smith: Conservation
Representative Smith, I had a conversation yesterday with your wonderful aide ███████████████████. I mentioned the idea of bringing ‘conservation’ into the discussion of air travel and she must have thought I was nuts. It is hard to explain to younger people how much Americans used to glamourise cars. The idea that we might ever feel
Remote Works Better
Introduction One small silver-lining from 2020 is the broad realization that a great deal of work can now be done as well or even better without travel. Reducing unnecessary travel is the single most immediate and efficient way to mitigate climate change. Not only is it practically ‘free’, it actually saves time and money for