The Luddites Loved Remote Work

They knew “working from home” meant controlling your hours, the pace of work, and your quality of life

Clive Thompson
GEN
Published in
8 min readOct 26, 2021

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Women working in a weaving factory, under the eye of the manager

By now, you’ve heard about the culture clash in white-collar remote work:

  1. Bosses want employees back in the office …
  2. … but a lot of employees are saying screw that: I want to stay remote.

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Clive Thompson
GEN
Writer for

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net