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If you were explaining the world to an alien, it would be hard to justify the lack of diversity in working arrangements. I applaud any such non standard option
by orzig 4y ago
If you were explaining the world to an alien, it would be hard to justify the lack of diversity in working arrangements. I applaud any such non standard option in the labor market - may your office be full of good fits!
- viraptor 4y agoI'm not saying it's right or the most effective option, but I believe it would be trivial to justify: it's easier to organise something in a group if everyone's available at the same time. I'm the only person in the team working 4 day week and even that was a bit awkward in planning. (still totally worth it)
- musingsole 4y ago> it's easier to organise something in a group if everyone's available at the same time I think most workgroups have effectively been paying extremely high overhead in social costs just so the organization could have the option to organize easily. The problem then is that meetings are called flippantly. If it's hard to get everyone in a room, you'll do a better job capitalizing on when it happens. The downside is there really are a large array of tasks that a group can tackle better than an individual, but I've never seen a corporate group meaningfully recognize or organize for those tasks. Far more often, I get pulled into meetings because some specific individual or another is lacking in autonomy and expertise.
- laserlight 4y ago> I get pulled into meetings because some specific individual or another is lacking in autonomy and expertise These people are unconsciously aware that they are incompetent. They pull people into meetings in order to have a sense of having done work, at the cost of total productivity.
- Gigachad 4y agoI think it would be pretty easy to explain how everyone converged on the same system. If you continually optimise for the best arrangement, everyone is going to end up on pretty much the same thing.
- seydor 4y agobirds migrate, humans travel to work, self-organization and herd behavior are very prevalent in nature
- jamesmishra 4y agoI don't know. The aliens could be some type of insect with entire classes of workers that can never stop working. Maybe they think about how to justify their working arrangements to us humans.
- booleandilemma 4y ago“It’s only for the next 24 hours and then you’re dead”
- iso1631 4y agoYou sleep a full third of your rotation. You rest and relax while you are awake. Alpha quadrant has far too much down time.
- basisword 4y agoPeople in a company often collaborate so having them work at the same place/time is useful. Companies often collaborate or use each others services so having all companies and all people work at the time is useful. Parents need their kids taken care of while they work, so school hours mirror (to an extent) working hours and vice versa. All very explainable I think.
- spaetzleesser 4y ago"People in a company often collaborate so having them work at the same place/time is useful." the funny thing is that the same people who talk about collaboration at the office are often the decision makers that set up open offices where everybody wears headphones and nobody ever talks to each other.
- basisword 4y agoI meant more historically why things are this way. Open offices/cubicles have been around longer than people have been wearing headphones in the office. I certainly don't agree with it for modern tech work.
- waylandsmithers 4y agoI recently watched the movie 9 To 5 where Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton rebel against their boss at work, and ultimately fix the workplace by allowing people to job-share, where sets of two people each work half a day, and by opening a day care center on their floor. This movie came out in 1980.