Remote Work or Just Work?

a16z2023-02-26

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Remote work is evolving to be considered just work, with a focus on global hiring and talent acquisition. Companies face challenges in standardizing benefits across countries. The term 'remote' may disappear as the norm shifts to working with the right talent regardless of location. This represents a significant change in the workplace. The evolution of work from hunting and gathering to remote work today highlights the influence of technology. Remote work is a product of leveraging the Internet to improve lives and build stronger organizations, showing how society has adapted to new ways of working over time.

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Evolution of Remote Work Concept.

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Remote work is becoming synonymous with work, emphasizing global hiring and talent acquisition.

Companies are struggling to standardize benefits across different countries due to complex challenges.

The term 'remote' may eventually fade as the focus shifts to working with the right talent, regardless of location.

The shift to remote work signifies a major change in the workplace that should not be underestimated, impacting traditional practices like teaching handwriting in schools.

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Evolution of work from hunting and gathering to remote work today highlights changing nature of work influenced by technology.

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Remote work seen as product of leveraging Internet to improve lives and build stronger organizations.

Shift towards remote work shows how society has adapted to new ways of working over time.

00:00foreign

00:03work is not remote work it's just work

00:06right and that's I'm hoping the term

00:08remote work and it disappears over time

00:09right it's more about how you're doing

00:11work and how people are structure it and

00:13you know the output that they have and I

00:14think the key thing that we're seeing in

00:16these people are starting to because

00:17they're starting to look out right from

00:19their 30 miles ranges right they're

00:21starting to hire globally and hiring

00:23globally right means

00:25that you're starting to have more

00:28consideration right for what is standard

00:30in one country compared to another from

00:31a benefits standpoint but at the same

00:33time right as you scale you want to be

00:34as standardized as possible right so

00:36that brings a lot of interesting and

00:38complex challenges which we're having

00:40fun solving but yeah I mean overall

00:43the word is a is a is this a big place

00:45and there is amazing talent everywhere

00:48and I think more and more people are

00:50realizing that it's about you know

00:52working with the right people doesn't

00:53really matter where they are as long as

00:55you've got the right Talent right and I

00:56mean I'm not saying anything new here

00:58but that's really the trend we're seeing

00:59right from like the small companies all

01:00the way to I mean you know we onboarded

01:02the formula one team yesterday as a

01:04customer right so like you've got a very

01:06big breath of products and people

01:08yeah I will agree that long term the

01:11word remote goes away and it's just work

01:13what we're talking about is the

01:15workplace we're still going to use the

01:17term remote for a while because we've

01:19done it the other way for so long that

01:21it's a necessary qualifier in the

01:24language of work

01:26um but my my son is three right now it's

01:29highly unlikely that he'll ever see work

01:32any other way I'll have to show him

01:35YouTube videos of millions of people

01:37getting in a personal vehicle and

01:40driving to somewhere they don't live

01:43to open a computer that They Carried

01:45with them and it's going to blow his

01:48mind

01:49he it's going to require an explanation

01:53it's going to be one of those

01:54generational things where you can show a

01:56pencil uh in a small circle in a

01:59cassette like do you know what this is

02:01like oh yeah I used to rewind the

02:03cassette tapes using that this is the

02:06workplace cassette moment or fax machine

02:08moment and it's very much a massive

02:11shift that shouldn't be underestimated

02:13yes I I remember talking to a friend

02:15recently and I was like I wonder when

02:17they're gonna stop teaching kids

02:18handwriting in schools which sounds

02:20crazy given our generation because

02:22that's so foundational to or at least my

02:25education growing up

02:26um and I don't know if that'll disappear

02:28anytime soon because it is also a

02:30cultural signifier or it's it's almost

02:33like a step to learning to read which

02:37you know then leads to comprehension and

02:39so it's all interrelated but I do wonder

02:41what things we're used to really

02:45foundational things in our society which

02:47of those will be relics and it actually

02:49reminds me also of something I saw

02:51recently which was a tweet I think it

02:53was from 1891 or sorry the Tweet covered

02:56a newspaper article from 1891 where

02:59someone was slamming the office because

03:01that person felt like we should all be

03:03hunters and gatherers and like outside

03:04and in the wild and so I wonder you know

03:07if we're seeing certain

03:09um permutations of that today right

03:11where what we think of as work 100 years

03:14ago was not the office right we should

03:16say 200 years ago was not the office and

03:18then 100 years ago it was the office and

03:20then today it's something else but to

03:22both of your points like that is work

03:24right remote work is just a modifier

03:27that we've added in this current

03:28juncture when there's a debate about

03:30what work should be

03:32at its core it's leveraging technology

03:34remote work is a product so humankind

03:36invented the Internet we're finally

03:38using it and leveraging it in a way that

03:41helps people live better lives and and

03:43leaders build more durable organizations

03:45so it's it's been a long time coming

03:47foreign

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