As far as I can tell, this is the essence of a post-industrial workplace. We can't keep looking at knowledge work as something where more people and longer hou

As far as I can tell, this is the essence of a post-industrial workplace. We can't keep looking at knowledge work as something where more people and longer hours results in more product. I find it really strange when I ask to work from home for some extended period (like 3 days!) and my superiors ask me to not mention it to the other employees (whoops, here I am, mentioning it... well they don't read HN). I guess the corporation would not like people to get wind of the fact that they don't actually need to be there. The appearance of loyalty and coherence are important to some people, I guess. Bah.