I wrote my Master’s degree thesis on teleworking back in the early 2000s. I proposed that teleworking, now colloquially known as “Working from Home,” is a net gain for employers due to flexibility afforded to workers and the reduced facility costs for employers. In the years since, my thesis still stands, and there are more and more studies performed every year that bear this out.
This article is garbage and neglects to expand for things such as work hour flexibility, work/life balance, and remote workforce enablement.
Back then, and still today, teleworking was seen as a way to reduce traffic congestion. It seems logical, work from Home and don’t commute would lead to fewer cars in the road, but the statistics are not that simple.
If anything has helped reduce the number of cars on the road, it is Amazon, but Uber and Lyft have added cars to the roads.
I already worked from home 90-95% of the time before the Wuhan virus hit. There are accountability systems that work, and there are others that are micromanaging and oppressive.
If someone gives you a deadline, do what you can to meet it. If you’ve scheduled check-in meetings, attend them. This is standard.
The accountability systems that go nanny-state include:
* applications that take snapshots of your computer every 5-15 minutes
* apps that literally check in with you, asking questions or putting in popups to prove you’re paying attention
* bosses that constantly text, call and email to try to micro-manage remotely
Liberals are trying to use Big Tech to implement nanny state controls in the name of public health. Let us know where you are, we care about you. Let us know what you’re saying, posting, feeling, and we’ll give you warnings, feedback and then censor you for the public good.
This is what a maternal dystopia looks like - an over-bearing mother on steroids enabled by artificial intelligence and do-gooder admins