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Truth be told the best way to protect the unexpected windfall of widespread remote work is to organize and to form some sort of professional association or guil
by Apocryphon 5y ago
Truth be told the best way to protect the unexpected windfall of widespread remote work is to organize and to form some sort of professional association or guild [0] that can preserve tech worker leverage past current economic conditions.
But no one is currently talking about that very much right now (the Tech Workers Coalition seems pretty quiet lately), because we're all dazzled by the roaring market and unable to see the dim future when it cools down and we're no longer hot commodities.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23388223 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23388223
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23502195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23502195
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11083633 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11083633
- nemetroid 5y agoIf you have a workplace where the vast majority want to work remotely but management doesn’t, it could work. But stats posted elsewhere in the comments suggest that (in general) only slightly more than half of employees want to do so, which I don’t believe is enough for efficient collective action.
- Apocryphon 5y agoThe collective action oughta just be support for choice for all. My suspicion is the end result would be hybrid for most- I think most pro-office folks would be content to work remotely at least a day or two per week- and remote for some who really want it. Pre-pandemic, most companies already had at least some remote workers who reside in different regions from the company, anyway. Collective action should preserve work location choice, not enshrine any one specific choice for all cases.
- citizenpaul 5y agoIt is if that half is (and it is) the bottom performers.