Remote work may not be working any more

[CentralMass]

13. Bullshit. I've been working remotely since the start and I understand that my

ability to do so is up to my employer to decide. However in a world where many companies have been working globally with teams collaborating online for many years now and with home offices with high speed internet it is an extremely productive environment.
While commutes vary, ehy is it necessary to drive an hour into work to have to more then likely go onto a conference room to disscuss a project related issue with your coworker who is sitting next to you because others in the area get disturbed by the conversation. Or going into a large room as a group to meet with another team across the globe via a video conference. When in the remote office we have all the tools to be able to do it more efficiently? Why risk the spread of the next pandemic illness ?
I spend my day with a heads set on. Our phone has been our laptops for years now. We use either a USB or Bluetooth headset. While we rarely use our work telephone number we have a full suite of sharing/collaboration tools. That let us schedule meeting and fully share our computing environments.. If a coworker(s) and I are having a messing chat and need to turn it into a call it can be done with a click and then we can share our environments without having to walk over to someone's desk and look over their shoulder at monitor that may or not be setup for everyone's eyes to see easily. I spent the bulk of my career driving 45 minute - 1hr + commutingtng to/from work each day and would then often times have to log back into to work st home and do additional work or call into meetings with groups on the other side of the globe at some odd hour. Not to mention the gallons of gas and tail pipe emissions saved and wear and tear on my vehicle.