Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham said remote work "fooled" leaders at the start of the pandemic.
Major firms including Amazon, Meta, and Apple have ordered workers back to the office recently.
Partly I think because remote work does work initially, if you start with a system already healthy from in-person work ... And partly because it seemed to solve recruiting, which is always a bottleneck."
Graham's comments come as a number of major companies reverse their flexible working policies including Amazon, Apple, and Goldman Sachs.
Graham joins a list of influential figures who are taking a stand against remote work including Elon Musk who has famously waged a war against the practice calling it "morally wrong."
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