Three things that make no sense today

Tony Forcucci
5 min readJun 17, 2022
Photo by Ayo Ogunseinde on Unsplash

1. Commuting to the Office

If you have been working from home for the past two years, you and everyone else has discovered that it works.

I fully understand that there is a benefit to interacting with your co-workers in person, but that doesn’t outweigh the benefits of remote working, especially when there’s no loss in productivity. Everyone can always get together in person for certain quarterly meetings or customer visits without having to make a daily commute a thing.

Those were the days

World governments locking everyone down for two years led to demonstrating to all that it is completely possible to manage companies, careers, and complex work without having to waste 20 hours a week commuting by train or driving up and down some highway, just so you can sit in a cubicle all day, eat out everyday at some quick lunch restaurant, or worse eat at your desk.

City mayors around the country really really want people to come back to the office because it was these workers who drove city economies, especially the downtowns of the world. But if there is no actual work or productivity benefit, you’re much better off working from home or some…

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Tony Forcucci

I share travel, business, and rational thought stories from experiencing a lot of the world up close. tonyforcucci.com