Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Nathan Kuczmarski on Unsplash The productivity gains are real. The question is who keeps them. On March 14, 2026, I sat on the train from Hamburg to Berlin. I was on my way to pick up my 9-year-old son after he’d spent a week with his grandmother. It’s a familiar route, the kind of time usually reserved for being together with the family, visiting our relatives in Berlin. But this time, as I was alone, the ride took one hour longer than usual due to construction, and I had a specific idea — a ghost of a project that had been rattling around in my mind for years. I wanted to build a web app to visualize team availability. To organize my team’s availability, I once created an Excel tool that is a simple vertical list of the days of the year, with each column representing one employee. You can enter different values for each day, such as working, vacation, travel, or simply off.…