But when you get down to the "How?" it quickly becomes apparent that the inertia is strong and the odds of success are extremely low.

Still, it's a fun daydream.

It does also mean I'll be doing much less frequent business with their store.

It's not hard to imagine that it's simply unequipped to know something like that, and it does seem fair to require that it become so equipped.

Huge supporter of autonomous cars, still feel like this is completely reasonable to require a solution for.

It does take time and active effort to become fully productive in a remote environment. It's not something you're just born knowing how to do, it's a set of skills just like working in an office is a set of skills. You have to learn them.

Yes, I do.

Also, I don't think the vast majority of office-based companies have any idea what their actual productivity levels are.

I admire the guy for having as much fun with his failures as his successes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dklYG70e7R0

But I have worked for a previous manager again. He left the original company too, but set up contracting as an outside consultant to the software we built. He'd hire me to do some of the work as needed. Great gig for him, not bad for me.

That's not that rare of a setup if you're working on large B2B software packages.