The fact that there’s still any debate regarding viability of working from home after we’ve had definitive proof of that during the pandemic is absolutely surreal.
You have data, but Andy Jassy has a gut feeling. Sundar Pichai really missed seeing everyone. Who’s thinking about their feelings? We have to live our lives according to the whims and fancies of billionaire CEOs or else they’ll be really sad.
Hippo protocol. Highest Paid Person’s Opinion.
I wonder though if in the near future because of the popularity of work-from-home the boundaries between public life and private life could errode more. Prior to work-from-home many employers already assumed they could contact their employees any day, any time, and expect prompt action/response. Once a living-space is also a work-space why shouldn’t I encourage my employees (who I don’t have, I’m not an employer) to work extra hours? They’re already not commuting, that’s time they could be working.
That’s definitely a danger, work already bleeds into private life with people being expected to be always connected and available. Lack of clearly defined boundaries between work and home could make that worse.
Living time is not working time though. That we just should normalise more. Shitty employers are trying to make people work overtime regardless, so the solution for that is the same, no matter where are you physically.
I absolutely agree that we should however it’s a prisoners dilemma. The person who is willing to sacrifice their living time to work is a more desirable employee than someone who respects their living time, and we’re seeing automation replace not only laborious jobs but cerebral and creative jobs as well. We’re just starting to see the next generation of jobs being replaced by more advanced automation and AI. I don’t think we’re all doomed but the future is beginning to look pretty uncertain.
Correction to the first panel:
“YOU need to reduce carbon emissions.”
fucks off to Cabo on a private plane for the 5th time this month5th time this month? Isn’t Tom Cruise taking his jet to New York daily for the coffee?
Cringe
I love it.
Take this oil-baron founded Q nonsense out of here
I don’t think the big business folks are the ones saying we need to limit emissions…
Sure they do. But only because it has become en vogue with the common folk. Aand only as far as it doesn’t negatively impact their boni.
What’s a “boni”?
German short form of the remuneration (“bonus”) managers & co. often get themselves. It’s “bonus” in english too, so i thought “boni” is common.
Something like this: https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/drei-von-vier-ceo-konnten-sich-2021-ueber-mehr-lohn-freuen-496654556941 (thefuck, 15% more extra in one year?!)
Thanks. Nope, never heard that in English and a Google search shows nothing related to bonuses I can find. Interesting to know about though
Ever heard of ASG?
My work keeps testing the waters, holding mandatory in office meetings… but most of the IT department is in other countries, so I get arbitrarily punished for living in the same city.
Isn’t it crazy you moved 5 hours away to be closer to family? I thought you told your boss.
Ah, they don’t mean reduce emissions though. That might actually do something.
Instead it’s all about becoming “carbon neutral”, which means slipping £20 to a company that offsets emissions, they slip £10 to a company in a third world country offering the same thing, they slip £5 to a farm owner who gives £1 to a guy who throws some seeds into a field.
It’s like paying a man to be celibate so you can cheat on your wife guilt free.
Or they run carbon scrubbers that are actually a net negative because of the power they use.
My work instituted a policy for field workers that have to go out in teams of two.
This means everyone has to be at the office because they need to be available to accompany a field worker.
Its stupsud and arbitrary but for context my work is also 9 months into not negotiating with our union. Yey corrupt local government.
treaten them
Let people work from home
Restructure cities to focus on humans first, cars last. This requires changing suburbs to have mixed use buildings, smaller shops and cafes and restaurants mixed / close by with houses. This requires changing a large amount of roads to become smaller, replacing lots of roads with bicycle infrastructure. Add GOOD public transportation
This way, people can walk to the vast majority of destinations (< half a kilometer). If it’s further, they can bike (< 5-10 kms) and it’s further yet they can take easy and good quality public transportation.
In very rare occasions people actually really really need a car. For those, they can use an Uber type service.
This works. Check the Netherlands, Finland and other countries. It requires the will to do it. Bicycle infrastructure is much cheaper to build and maintain and with the cars mostly gone we can repurpose huge parking lots to be nice parks, better housing and generally cities can get more taxes from designs like that. Less costs, more income, nicer and cleaner and safer cities!
Good luck with any of that though, car companies want to print more money money money…
