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It’s interesting. Would a hardware company like Atari, or Apple, succeed if all the execs were fully remote? My gut feeling tells me no.
by mise_en_place 4y ago
It’s interesting. Would a hardware company like Atari, or Apple, succeed if all the execs were fully remote? My gut feeling tells me no.
- ng55QPSK 4y agoThere is a reason why we talk Metaverse/XR in Industry 4.0. Being at the place of production might not be needed in the future, anyway.
- supramouse 4y agositting with a headset on for 8hrs a day seems worse than being in a cube
- djhn 4y agoIn a company owned headset, that measures your resting heart rate, blood pressure and eye movement with a dystopian sensor/camera setup to monitor your body language.
- Gigachad 4y agoCould measure your brain activity to give you a notification to stop slacking off. Or detect non typical brain activity to alert a manager to check the worker isn’t playing games or looking at memes.
- asteroidbelt 4y agoYou can do it already by installing malware on employee computers.
- CameronNemo 4y agoThis is confusing to me because most Apple execs don't live in Asia.
- amelius 4y agoIt worked for Charlie's Angels :)
- tannhaeuser 4y agoFor Robin Masters, too :)
- majewsky 4y agoThey were clearly in the service industry, though.
- flohofwoe 4y agoI rather wonder if anything would really change if the execs would disappear completely, some companies might actually be better off ;)
- ryanbrunner 4y agoI'm not aware of hardware companies where most office workers work in the actual factory location (or often even the same company that produces the items). If the argument is "well you might need to interact with a line worker at the factory" working from home vs. an office not at the actual factory isn't really any different?