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This is correct. Workers rights come from the flexibility and trust that a remote-optional arrangement provides. I live in a small apartment with two working a
by mbil 4y ago
This is correct. Workers rights come from the flexibility and trust that a remote-optional arrangement provides.
I live in a small apartment with two working adults. I’d rather work from our kitchen table than from an open office.
I believe that some people with small children like working from home because they can spend less on childcare and spend more time with their children.
Individuals have a huge spectrum of changing wants and needs. Our working arrangements can and should be flexible.
- wwarner 4y agoOk I’ll bite. I don’t like the rights framing, and I don’t quite know what is meant by trust. I want to replace the word trust with information. Information doesn’t flow along the edges if the org chart, nor does it flow down from manager to employee. It’s moving between individuals horizontally and vertically, and also between groups. For anyone to be effective, they have to know what’s going on, where the project is heading, what’s crucial and what’s expendable. Working in isolation is just not conducive to building an intuition for this team awareness. All the trust in the world isn’t going to cut through the misinformation and confusion that accumulates while people are out of the office, working hard on the wrong thing.
- Apocryphon 4y agoThe thing is, Apple's internal corporate culture runs opposite to this sort of free flow of information.