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Yeah, I fucking wish. Unless COVID-19 kills offices entirely, executives will continue to find ways to fit the most amount of people into the least amount of s

by Hamuko 7y ago

Yeah, I fucking wish. Unless COVID-19 kills offices entirely, executives will continue to find ways to fit the most amount of people into the least amount of space.

kgin 7y ago
Most amount of people in least amount of space = don't have an office at all.
- Hamuko 7y ago
  Yeah, but then you enter the territory of "if an employee works at home and no one is around to see it, do they do work?"
  - musicale 7y ago
    "Working from home can make it feel like managers have less direct supervision over workers. But an always-on video-conference tool changes that by automatically snapping webcam pictures of employees every few minutes." https://www.businessinsider.com/work-from-home-sneek-webcam-picture-5-minutes-monitor-video-2020-3 https://www.businessinsider.com/work-from-home-sneek-webcam-...
  - hinkley 7y ago
    There is almost a Feudal Lord timbre to the way some people talk about their employees. Must. Control. Everything. Especially. Minutiae. I've no idea how prevalent it actually is, especially since some practitioners are exceedingly loud about it. I really hope it's just confirmation bias. At its worst I occasionally have to resist the urge to blurt out, "You know we live in a Democracy, not an Aristocracy, right?"
    - mythrwy 7y ago
      Well, until you go to work. Then it's dictatorship which you can leave when you chose but until you do it isn't democracy. If you have to work, the best you can do is a benevolent dictatorship rather than one with authoritarian people who are usually clueless at top. Which sadly is many and maybe even most workplaces.
      - hinkley 7y ago
        We put an awful lot of limits on what can be asked of people at work. That management bangs against these like a 10 year old testing boundaries is a little unsettling. I've always preferred to think of myself as working on a team, but I guess even a team gets yelled at by a coach quite a lot.

by Hamuko 7y ago

Yeah, I fucking wish. Unless COVID-19 kills offices entirely, executives will continue to find ways to fit the most amount of people into the least amount of space.

kgin 7y ago

Most amount of people in least amount of space = don't have an office at all.

Hamuko 7y ago
Yeah, but then you enter the territory of "if an employee works at home and no one is around to see it, do they do work?"
- musicale 7y ago
  "Working from home can make it feel like managers have less direct supervision over workers. But an always-on video-conference tool changes that by automatically snapping webcam pictures of employees every few minutes." https://www.businessinsider.com/work-from-home-sneek-webcam-picture-5-minutes-monitor-video-2020-3 https://www.businessinsider.com/work-from-home-sneek-webcam-...
- hinkley 7y ago
  There is almost a Feudal Lord timbre to the way some people talk about their employees. Must. Control. Everything. Especially. Minutiae. I've no idea how prevalent it actually is, especially since some practitioners are exceedingly loud about it. I really hope it's just confirmation bias. At its worst I occasionally have to resist the urge to blurt out, "You know we live in a Democracy, not an Aristocracy, right?"
  - mythrwy 7y ago
    Well, until you go to work. Then it's dictatorship which you can leave when you chose but until you do it isn't democracy. If you have to work, the best you can do is a benevolent dictatorship rather than one with authoritarian people who are usually clueless at top. Which sadly is many and maybe even most workplaces.
    - hinkley 7y ago
      We put an awful lot of limits on what can be asked of people at work. That management bangs against these like a 10 year old testing boundaries is a little unsettling. I've always preferred to think of myself as working on a team, but I guess even a team gets yelled at by a coach quite a lot.