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Because the genie is out the bottle. For better or worse, many tech companies have worked hard to make your workplace your social hub in an effort to retain emp
by madrox 5y ago
Because the genie is out the bottle. For better or worse, many tech companies have worked hard to make your workplace your social hub in an effort to retain employees and get them to work longer hours. That's already happened, so now we have to deal with the good and bad that came from that. Going backward to how things were is as realistic as uninventing Twitter.
- chitowneats 5y agoThat dynamic has not existed since March 2020.
- cutemonster 5y agoI.e. since covid-19 (just in case someone finds this discussion 20 years later and wonders what was special about that March month)
- pgwhalen 5y agoI'm curious if Americans won't really understand the meaning of that in 20 years. I feel like it would be equivalent to saying "September of 2001", and surely Americans now understand what that refers to.
- koheripbal 5y agoAs someone who worked in tech in the 20th century, we also worked long hours, fyi. We didn't connect with coworkers outside work, I think, because social media didn't exist and so we held on more to earlier friendships longer and actually were more open to acquainting ourselves to new strangers we met in public. The old "can I have your number" days. I think politics were present in the office much, because pre-social media, there was no conduit to get bombarded with hyperbolic political messages. ...and thus those people who were very political were not invited to social gatherings more frequently. ...something you can't do as easily on social media.
- mk81 5y agoPersonally think this pushback by companies will continue and that those companies that successfully avoid "woke at work" will be spectacularly more effective at delivering products and services their customers want. We'll see.