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In other news, Nature would like you to return to work where you'll be so creative under the florescent lights in your super-cubicles and open floor plans.

andrei_says_ 4y ago
I am careful to use the term “Return to long commutes and work from the office” as “return to work” implies that working remotely is not “work”. I believe you meant the former - this is my tiny PSA about the importance of framing and phrasing. Similarly “quiet quitting” is a frame further normalizing employee exploitation. “Working within contractual obligations” defangs that one.
- lbrindze 4y ago
  I do the same thing, but insist on calling all regular weekends "short weekends" and holiday weekends "regular weekends" or just "weekends". My hope is this catches on and we start thinking of 5 day weeks as "long weeks". (given that I stole this from a podcast producer maybe it already is?)
gclaramunt 4y ago
the "big office real estate conspiracy" is in full swing... So many articles shilling for going back, but the genie is out of the bottle now.
- lioeters 4y ago
  > Publisher of Nature (journal) - Nature Research (subsidiary of Springer Nature) --- > Springer Nature - Owners: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (53%), BC Partners (47%) > In 2017, the company agreed to block access to hundreds of articles on its Chinese site, cutting off access to articles on Tibet, Taiwan, and China's political elite. --- > Holtzbrinck Publishing Group is a privately held German company based in Stuttgart which owns publishing companies worldwide. ..The history of Georg von Holtzbrink's publishing activities during the Nazi years 1933-1945 has been controversial. ..In 2015, it merged most of its Macmillan Science and Education unit (including Nature Publishing Group) with Springer Science+Business Media. --- > BC Partners is a British international investment firm with over $40 billion of assets under management across private equity, credit and real estate in Europe and North America.
photochemsyn 4y ago
Another possibility is this is a Meta marketing effort because in the Metaverse you aren't looking at a screen so, ah, you can be creative? Seems like a rational explanation.

andrei_says_ 4y ago

I am careful to use the term “Return to long commutes and work from the office” as “return to work” implies that working remotely is not “work”. I believe you meant the former - this is my tiny PSA about the importance of framing and phrasing. Similarly “quiet quitting” is a frame further normalizing employee exploitation. “Working within contractual obligations” defangs that one.

lbrindze 4y ago
I do the same thing, but insist on calling all regular weekends "short weekends" and holiday weekends "regular weekends" or just "weekends". My hope is this catches on and we start thinking of 5 day weeks as "long weeks". (given that I stole this from a podcast producer maybe it already is?)

gclaramunt 4y ago

the "big office real estate conspiracy" is in full swing... So many articles shilling for going back, but the genie is out of the bottle now.

lioeters 4y ago
> Publisher of Nature (journal) - Nature Research (subsidiary of Springer Nature) --- > Springer Nature - Owners: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (53%), BC Partners (47%) > In 2017, the company agreed to block access to hundreds of articles on its Chinese site, cutting off access to articles on Tibet, Taiwan, and China's political elite. --- > Holtzbrinck Publishing Group is a privately held German company based in Stuttgart which owns publishing companies worldwide. ..The history of Georg von Holtzbrink's publishing activities during the Nazi years 1933-1945 has been controversial. ..In 2015, it merged most of its Macmillan Science and Education unit (including Nature Publishing Group) with Springer Science+Business Media. --- > BC Partners is a British international investment firm with over $40 billion of assets under management across private equity, credit and real estate in Europe and North America.

photochemsyn 4y ago

Another possibility is this is a Meta marketing effort because in the Metaverse you aren't looking at a screen so, ah, you can be creative? Seems like a rational explanation.