The World Cup, Remote Work and the Curious Death of Annual Leave
Somewhere between Slack, Zoom and cheap flights, humanity has apparently decided that even the biggest sporting event on Earth should become a productivity exercise.
There was a time when attending a World Cup required a fairly radical act of rebellion. You either booked a significant amount of annual leave, negotiated awkwardly with your manager, or accepted that most matches would be consumed through grainy office streams hidden behind spreadsheets that nobody was actually workin…
