‘If The Work Gets Done What Does It Matter’ — TikToker Ignites Debate About Remote Work By Having Fun While Working

Remote work has obviously become a major topic of conversation over the past few years, thanks to the disease that shall remain nameless.

Now, a popular TikTok video has launched something of a discussion among the platform’s users about remote work, what environments are okay to do remote work in, and why remote workers of some professions are treated like children who won’t work if they’re not being watched.

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The video itself is only five seconds long but shows the TikTok user lounging in a wake surf boat that’s cruising along the water with a laptop, in a swimsuit and sunglasses.

“Remote ‘workers’ on a Wednesday [sic] at 2 pm,” the overlay text reads.

The text might seem to indicate that the user is mocking remote workers or suggesting that none of them are really working, but her replies to some of the comments suggest that she is a remote worker herself.

Tags about things like “work-life balance” also indicate that she doesn’t consider the idea of doing her job while cruising down an idyllic lake in a swimsuit to be a problem.

“Sent this to my bosses,” wrote one commenter, “they say as long as my work gets done I could work from wherever.”

“I love it! Mine are the same [way],” replied the woman who made the video.

Remote work exploded with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic as many workplaces closed their offices and had their employees work from home rather than risk spreading a little-understood and dangerous illness. This resulted in something of a backlash from micro-managing bosses and people afraid that all that investment in ugly office buildings would be a waste, but many workers resisted going back into the office.

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