This country is screwed. Get money for sitting at home, doing the laundry. No industrial output. Everyone is entitled to do nothing.
I am not joining that world.
My God!
Soon people will be expecting to not have to work 80 hours a week, or even something as socialistic as vacations and sick days! We must stop such communistic degradation NOW! The elite, er the economy needs us to do our 120 hours a week, every week or the country will fall!
Your view is myopic and incorrect.
If I don’t do my work, no one else does.
There are keystroke loggers and metric tracking available.
Middle Managers are the most useless, minus HR, in my field.
Micromanaging no nothing salary wasters…
Productivity can be measured for the types of jobs for which you can work from home. I don't know of any studies that state going into the office 5 days a week makes you more productive. However 4 10 hour days is a good compromise
My wife has worked from home since late 2019 due to an medical issue. She dreads having to go back into the office. Her productivity has increased. She is a writer, so the lack of distractions (people stopping to chat and that kind of stuff) allows her to focus. She has taken on much more work during the same time.
Her department is t going back into the office anytime soon. They are actually converting their old space to “visiting staff” offices.
I know this isn’t everyone’s experience. But, depending on the structure and the job…it works well.
Probably a bad idea & basically unfair as some types of jobs could not be done this way. Makes those not in this program work to pay for those reaping the benefits.
I think I agree with you. Technology and work and work-PRODUCT have changed a lot in my lifetime and your “industrial” connection is shorthand for a worker ACTUALLY producing a tangible product. It’s very unfortunate that today’s societal connection with ‘product’ is banging out stuff on a computer actual ‘product.’
This country doesn’t PRODUCE anything anymore except middleman reports, paperwork and overrated ‘coding’.
The world is about to find out about it with what Musk is doing with Twitter. Most of those leftist Tweeper (as they call themselves) leeches had no business pulling in a paycheck, IMO.
“Get money for sitting at home, doing the laundry.”
As long as the work is done what do you care what people do for a break after its done?
Better than commuting 2-3 hours every day to sit at a desk pretending to work most of the time. Many studies show average office workers only need a few hours a day to actually do the work and most of the time is basically on standby while stretching out the work they have.
You can now be on standby anywhere on the planet, finish your work at a faster pace and get more personal things done. Win-win for all except the few that had no life outside the office...
Depends on the job. Mine is analytical in nature. Spreadsheets, etc. I can do it anywhere with a solid al gore connection.
“This country is screwed. Get money for sitting at home, doing the laundry. No industrial output. Everyone is entitled to do nothing.
I am not joining that world.”
I worked a four day week for the police; the difference is that it was a four day 10 hour day. The three days off were welcome and needed.