Paul Graham: Remote Work Initially Works, Fooling Leaders Who Changed Their Minds.
Venture capitalist Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, has suggested that the effectiveness of remote work fades over time, which could explain why some company leaders have grown less enamoured with it. Graham said remote work initially works if a system is already healthy from in-person work, and partly because it seemed to solve recruiting, which is always a bottleneck. He acknowledged that there will continue to be remote-first companies, but remote-first won’t be the default.