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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
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All about balance. Working from home is such an improvement from past times. Face to face contact with your peers should not be underestimated though - very valuable.
It's bad enough having to hear my colleagues in teams meetings, I don't see why I have to smell them too.
This simply means that your local culture is flawed. Where I am, everyone looks and smells beautiful.
While this sounds intuitive, I've crunched side-by-side with a coworker (literally couch-coop, sshing into pods to solve a production issue), and then having also done the same over Discord with screen sharing, I can confidently say that once you actually embrace remote there is no marked tangible advantage to in person.
Other than it's easier to recruit for a union push on company time because people are constantly jawing, rather than doing their job when in person.
Are you painting the whole picture here?
First thing that comes to my mind is: You have met the person, thus connected, then worked together remotely.
That is a physical presence. How much physical presence is required for a good working relationship differs from individual to ~; having personally experienced a coworker is invaluable in my opinion.
The second paragraph does not resonate with me, I am from across the pond. To each their own!
I think it really does come down to individuals. Neither approach is going to work for everyone.
Not to oversimplify, but I think a big component is that extraverts feel more connected in person, whereas introverts will thrive when they can more easily regulate draining social encounters.