That 'telework revolution' article from 2010 still makes me laugh

I found a old CNN article from 2010 predicting that by 2020, 40% of the workforce would be completely remote. Joke's on them, my company's CEO still demanded everyone back in the office 5 days a week until March 2020. I wasted $600 on a fancy office chair and dual monitors in 2015 thinking I'd be working from home any day. Turns out the only thing that changed was how many spam calls I got about 'the future of collaboration.' Anyone else buy gear for a work-from-home life that never happened until the pandemic forced it?

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evanfox7d ago

Standing desk converters were such a scam lol. I remember those startup ads promising "the future of work" while they folded faster than my cheapo cardboard one did.

craig.parker7d ago

OH MAN, this one really gets me. I bought a $500 standing desk converter from some startup that went under two months later. The box sat in my garage for three years before I finally opened it to hold up a broken table leg. Meanwhile my CEO sent out a company-wide email in 2019 about how "face to face collaboration builds our culture" and then we all went remote for two years and he never even showed his face on Zoom. Now the office sits empty except for some guy watering dead plants.