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> If your company can't handle ground-level employees having some autonomy in their work, then your business model isn't likely to survive. > Besides, given th
by CPLX 7y ago
> If your company can't handle ground-level employees having some autonomy in their work, then your business model isn't likely to survive.
> Besides, given the extraordinary circumstances I don't think it's fair to expect everyone to be equally productive to being in the office.
It's worth noting that you're describing a very specific subset of the world of employment, namely people who work with some degree of autonomy in an office setting.
I would be shocked if even half of the American workforce primarily works in an "at a desk" or equivalent type position.
- nitrogen 7y agoI would be shocked if even half of the American workforce primarily works in an "at a desk" or equivalent type position. I'm curious about this but don't have time to look up numbers. It's hard to make a reasonable guess because while cities (and the offices within them) have the highest density, there could be a very long tail of factory, strip mall, grocery store, etc. jobs that would be higher per capita outside of cities and invisible to someone living inside a city.
- CPLX 7y agoEven in a city you're completely surrounded by people who don't have desk jobs. All the people who deliver stuff to your office, the maintenance staff, all retail and restaurant employees, law enforcement and fire/EMS, taxi and car service drivers, and on and on and on. And that's just what's in an office district. Drive down the NJ Turnpike or something and count how many massive employment centers you see that are primarily not office jobs. Everything from the shopping mall to the refinery to the airport to the distribution center.
- nitrogen 7y agoIt's easy to be deceived by the fact that it looks like there's one floor of non-office and 40+ floors of office in a downtown.
- wayoutthere 7y agoI'm only describing the kind of jobs that can be done from home since that's the topic of the article. I'm not expecting an auto mechanic to fix a vehicle over video chat :)