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If the goal is an employee-centric benefits system Unions don't seem to be an appropriate hack. Why not just break the privileged employer-employee tax relatio
by roc 17y ago
If the goal is an employee-centric benefits system Unions don't seem to be an appropriate hack. Why not just break the privileged employer-employee tax relationship for things like healthcare and 401k? Frankly, I don't see a Union-member situation as much better than employer-employee.
As for the office-less office: after having done the telecommuting thing for a while, I just don't see it happening in a large way. Like the paperless office, it sounds obvious. But we'll still be talking about it being on the horizon twenty years from now.
Too many people in positions of influence are innately suspicious of work that doesn't manifest physically.
- cwan 17y agoI agree with you on the unions bit though for the office-less office, I think it's something that will be increasingly common. The barriers to starting your own firm are falling - and falling dramatically, hence the existence of funders like ycombinator. Further, economies of scale have been slowly and quite quickly in some instances, erased because of technology. It should follow that we will see increasingly more (and different types of) small businesses and the ability of people to leverage off their own unique skill sets will rise. The question then becomes whether or not this will translate into more physical incubator/workspaces or just home offices... this is a tougher call, but with the disappearance of barriers, this will mean more easily that work will happen where it's most productive/valuable - and where this is, because of technology, is changing.