OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says remote work was a big mistake for tech – By Joshua Bote (SFGATE) / May 8, 2023
While seemingly every tech company is attempting to chase the artificial intelligence dragon that Sam Altman and OpenAI wrought, Altman is joining the old-fashioned chorus of anti-remote work tech CEOs with one of the strongest statements against it.
Altman — the chief executive of San Francisco-based OpenAI — opined against the “experiment” of remote work for staff creativity at a talk hosted by the financial tech giant Stripe. It was first reported by Fortune Friday.
“I think definitely one of the tech industry’s worst mistakes in a long time was that everybody could go full remote forever, and startups didn’t need to be together in person and, you know, there was going to be no loss of creativity,” Altman said during the chat, according to Fortune.
