Posted on 04/24/2023 6:10:47 PM PDT by DoodleBob
...Ask these executives why they're pushing the office so hard and you'll get some HR-concocted jumble of "productivity" and "creativity" and "culture." But their less-filtered peers will tell you what they really think. Jamie Dimon declared that working from home "doesn't work for those who want to hustle." Elon Musk demanded that employees commit to an "extremely hardcore" schedule consisting of "long hours at high intensity." And in a recent op-ed article in The New York Times, the finance executive and professional blowhard Steven Rattner railed against working from home as evidence that America has "gone soft."
I mean, they might as well just say it: They think working from home is for sissies. Even after their employees proved they could work just fine away from the office, the country's old, white, male CEOs want to go back to the way things were. And the old way was clear: The office is for work, and the home is for — well, for whatever unpaid stuff it is that women do while their men are at work. In the minds of many bosses, work from home is an oxymoron.
"These are men with very traditional views, who see the home as their wife's domain and work as men's domain," says Joan Williams...at the University of California College of the Law. "...This is not about workplace productivity. It's about masculinity."
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So women who started families ...couldn't stay late at the office or fly to Hong Kong every other month or be reachable 24/7 — the price of admission for what Claudia Goldin, an economic historian at Harvard, calls "greedy jobs," the ones that pay more and get you on the management track. .. Working from home became, in the words of Williams, a "feminized ghetto" that trapped women in dead-end jobs.
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And yes, I know....Business Insider...
Know thine enemy.
It is the sociopath bosses who want to treat their employees like slaves in the office plantation.
They couldn’t care less about productivity.
This is a bogus reason.
They want the people they are “in charge of” physically present together, in a place they control.
Some companies are doing very well with most folks working from home, to the point they have sold their downtown real estate offices and buildings. And it was a smart move for them as many did it before the market dived.
I suspect the biggest reason many companies hate employees working from home is that the employees are detached from the corporate culture and find it very easy to change jobs quickly.
“They couldn’t care less about productivity.”
Is productivity up? Or down?
The talent pool is separated, maybe that kills inertia. I would think so.
I used to remote in when I was on vacation, I’d go down to Florida and hang out at the beach and during the god-awful hot time of day I would go back into the beachfront condo that I was staying at and push buttons on the laptop for a couple hours maybe three, and that way... I wouldn’t have a gigantic pile of work waiting for me when I got back into the office a week or two later.
It was a great arrangement.
Elon Musk handled the “ work from home” issue perfectly. He said “I don’t care if they work from home, they aren’t going to do it for me”.
Because “work from home” shows Executive Management and ownership how very little value there is in most middle management positions. They need their peons in house to create the illusion their positions are “value add”
Well that shows even someone as smart as Elon has his idiot moments. Twitter would be a perfect work from home company that he could eliminate all his facility and equipment overhead if he set them all to work from home
They do not. They see working from home as a great way to game the work system. Mouse wiggler keeps your computer from going to sleep and you can play keystrokes through a keyboard port to make it look like you are typing. Then you can go to your other computer and watch porn. You can call people on your cell phone while you are at the store or maybe the golf course. You can have a three martini lunch and nobody can smell it on your breath. Hell, you could pretend to work at 2 or 3 different jobs and all you would have to do is produce something meaningful every once in a while.
Aki Ito? Isn’t that an Elvis song from “Girls, Girls, Girls”.
These guys know that, in general, you do not do as much when you are working from home as you do in the office.
There are some people who are the exceptions. But they are just that, exceptions. Certain jobs can be done from home, on-line customer service for example. The calls are fed to you and you have to put your station on hold for a potty break. That time is measured as is how much time you spend on calls. So the company has a metric to measure your work and so do you.
But for a lot of jobs this kind of metric does not exist.
They can see how long you are on the company website but are you actually working?
Pure feminazi trash but if it bolsters WFH I’ll take it. I never want to return to the office. So far I’ve been able to work from home for 3 years. I love it.
I won’t go back to the office. Wasting 2 hours a day to commute is simply not worth it.
BS....no one is as productive at home as they would be in the office. I’m not and I own the company. If you think you are you are either lying to yourself or your employer or both.
Load of crap.
My husband did work on vacation just like that. When our kids were little 2,5, and 7, it drove me nuts, but I dealt with it. He has a strong work ethic, which I’m sure you do, too.
Hubby has been working from his home office for 15 years. He has worked at all hours of the night, if the clients across the globe needed his help. He can handle being in the office, too, if that’s needed. It’s just whatever is most helpful.
Some people are self-starters and are very productive without going into an office. And I totally get to it wanting to be behind when you come back from vacation. The work doesn’t stop just because you’re out of the office.
I’ve heard a pretty wide range of leaders on remote and on site work and nobody even infers anything like this. Classic leftist projection at work.
Bingo. Spot on. But also, working from home is for sissies.
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