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My partner’s company just had their most profitable quarter in company history, when everyone but some bare bones staff was working at home, and they’re still d
by claudeganon 6y ago
My partner’s company just had their most profitable quarter in company history, when everyone but some bare bones staff was working at home, and they’re still debating whether or not to bring everyone back into the office.
At a certain point you have to recognize that it’s not about being safe or rational. It’s about bosses making sure they can hold power over employees.
- moksly 6y agoThey probably realise a home based workforce needs fewer bosses.
- ghaff 6y agoWhy do you think that? If anything, managers can help better connect a more distributed workforce. (And those connections are one of the definite downsides of everyone being remote.)
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoBecause if you have competent people, managers don't need to do much, we just coordinate ourselves to achieve our goals and our boss asks us from time to time if everything is going OK. The catch is, it takes a good manager to hire and keep good employees that can self coordinate effortlessly.
- rebuilder 6y agoDoes working remotely or from the office factor into that somehow?
- admax88q 6y agoI think its less that "remote workers need fewer bosses" and more that "remote work is illustrating that the number of bosses we have is not necessary" Many of them just don't have things to do when everyone is remote, and yet the work is still getting done.
- keeganpoppen 6y agoyes, it's washing away the illusion that the meetings that middle managers spend 90% of their days in provide any sort of value to anyone
- newsclues 6y agoBecause code can replace remote management in a far more efficient system
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- markkanof 6y agoWhat does your partner's company do? Is working from home directly and immediately attributable to the profits last quarter?
- claudeganon 6y agoIt is attributable. I don’t like to share too many personal details, but they work in a business that benefits from new demand driven by the pandemic.