An interesting view but there are many, many other industries that need remote working just as much (if not more) as software engineers do.

As for “comfortable place to work” I’ve been in portakabins at the end of a runway, on building sites, at airports, in rooms so cold that I couldn’t feel my fingers, server rooms so noisy I couldn’t hear the guy standing next to me, let alone being like Indiana Jones avoiding cables in server rooms!

We complain, or I do specifically, about agile as it’s become a whole layer of unnecessary and top-heavy evangelism that should be agile itself (i.e. 5% of its size) and has spawned a whole industry of ‘certification’ and ‘practitioners’ somewhat akin to homeopathy or distance healing. Perhaps it does have a place, but I’ve yet to see it operated effectively and more than often the process hinders actual progress which is the opposite of its intention.

As for “hard work” there are days when I’m literally dying after finishing up with a headache, blurred vision, and the shakes from the litres of coffee I’ve inadvertently ingested. Don’t even start me on the continued stress and fatigue in dealing with continued management directives, interference, and basically bad planning!

One last thing, comrade, we’re not privileged for we worked just as hard for where we are — at least the best of us — and these kind of comparisons are unhelpful at best.

Disclaimer: I work with Krystian and will chase him around the office with a rather large stapler next time we happen to be in the same room post-pandemic.