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Solarpunk Remote Employees

Is anyone in this sub or instance a remote worker? I have been one first partially and then completely for a few years now and I began to think as a kinda of solarpunk way of live that has the potential to propel humanity to a more decentralized and sustainable way of life, specially since I plan to move to a smaller town because of it. What do guys feel about it? Do you do it? Don't do it but would like to? Do it it but miss interaction?

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  • I'd argue that it's much the opposite actually.

    Remote working enables people to live far (even very far) from where they're working, from their colleagues, and potentially any community at all. You can spend your whole day, entire weeks even, never leaving the house, never interacting with a person, and this model can actually support car culture, since there's nothing driving you to live near work or other people at all.

    I switched to remote work when the pandemic started and I hate it. I live in Cambridge UK, and my office is in London. By many standards, this is barely remote work at all, since I do regularly see my colleagues in London about twice a month, and yet I find it hopelessly isolating.

    If solarpunk is about community, about the abandonment of car culture in favour of sustainable models, then I'd say that in most cases, (fully) remote work contradicts that model. I'm not saying that it's bad and we shouldn't have it (there are many reasons why certain people can't/won't ever be comfortable working in direct contact with others) but I don't think we should embrace it as the way things should be done.

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