The debate over remote work, office culture, how to manage teams of distributed staff, and the like continues. With the delta variant of COVID-19 pushing back-office return dates for many companies, there’s still a healthy argument over what the future of work will look like.
But while large companies hem and haw their way through the present, it’s my view that the debate is largely over and that startups have won it.
We’re being simplistic to some degree, but spending seed or Series A money on rent makes early office space some of the most expensive real estate in the world. For successful startups, at least. The savvy will avoid the tax.
I’ve been on a huge number of calls with startup founders since the onset of COVID-19, and in the last few quarters, it seems that nearly every time I talk to an early-stage company they have a remote, distributed team. Some of these startups were literally founded during the COVID era, so it makes sense. But the trend is broader than just those firms.
Read the complete TechCrunch article by: Alex Wilhelm: https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/28/the-remote-work-argument-has-already-been-won-by-startups/
