This article in the National Post was framed backwards.

These employees are reliable, disciplined, and hard-working enough to be able to work outside the Farm.

Future-forward employers want remote workers. Old-fashioned employees memorized old scripts and issue reactionary RTO orders.

If you have the tech, use it, but C-Suite who don’t actually know what they are doing — who want to play politics, manipulate people, sexually harass them, and have affairs — are the ones who hate remote work. Those control freaks live in a bygone era.

Remote workers are the future of work.

As someone who mostly worked remotely, can tell you I accomplish much more than those who schlep to and from the office. I wrote 21 books from home. I taught kintsugi and communications from home. I worked on US true crime television show from home. The Farm workers have to be less focused and more exhausted. Traveling to and from the office is a waste of life activity than the Haven workers who do it from home.

And when people are lying on their death beds, not a single person says, “Oh! If I only spent more time at the office!” They say, “If I only spent more time with loved ones.”

When you work from home, you are in a more relaxed state of mind, and hence, are more productive. Employers think that stress makes employees better, and nothing can be further from the truth. Stress kills. Calmness doesn’t.

But the article doesn’t give remote workers their due: it flat out states that remote employees come to court prepared with documentation and their employers don’t. Why?

Because those employees have to be more disciplined and know their worth — they are more organized and thorough. Officer workers are cultivated to be inferior because they are forced into the atmosphere of a manufactured theatre of making them stressed and edgy.

Employers come in unprepared because they actually believe their own narcissism: they constructed this artificial theatre where they are on top of a fabricated pecking order, and then think their manufactured ecosystem is reality. They strut into court wearing their paper crowns and scripted narratives, only to discover they are the inferior worker to the unfairly dismissed remote worker. They mistake a title as some sort of measure of their worth. And it’s not.

Remote workers win because — ta da ! — they are in the right, and they know it. If they weren’t, their documentation would mean nothing. The judge looks at the paper trail and can see this employee could be trusted to work from home, produced, and then was punished for it.

With video conferencing and AI, remote workers have the option of becoming CEOs of their own companies. They can build an empire from their laptop at home. They don’t have to live a conventional life. They can do it from a home office or RV and travel. They don’t have to memorize rigged rote rules and form unnatural habits.

The nature of work is changing. The great employees — the ones with the presence of mind to understand the stakes and their worth — don’t give in to the temps tantrums of employers who don’t even look at the calendar.

It’s almost 2026. Video conferencing and AI make the office obsolete.

What actually is hidden in this piece is that the inferior worker has a bigger title than the one who was dismissed.

And that says a lot about why businesses keep failing when we have the tools to make the future the present.