Sometimes I wonder at the limits of productivity here. Your average Office worker can do things that took multiple people to do in the pre-business IT age. We'

Sometimes I wonder at the limits of productivity here. Your average Office worker can do things that took multiple people to do in the pre-business IT age. We're so productive that we have no more low-hanging fruit to grab. Now we've entered the age of cargo-cult HR thinking like these office plans which are trying to squeeze out some tiny bit of productivity at the cost of extra misery for workers. It saddens me a bit to think that instead of being rewarded for being productive and competitive, we're just squeezed more and more. Remember when futurists in the past were predicting the 3 or 4 day workweek because of productivity gains and automation? People are working just as long and whatever dividends are being paid out from the efficiencies of modern work, just seem to be going nowhere or into the pockets of ownership. Personally, I'm hoping this stuff gets so bad that the white collar types start a revolt of sorts. We're seeing the blue collar types being 1099'd to death or worked hard at below living wages. Maybe its time we got squeezed so hard that we start taking a more political stance. Basing our modern work environment on what is essentially 1890's factory work policies (9-5, weekends, lunch breaks) seems crazy. I'm not even sure why I'm even in the office most days. Its all so inefficient and backwards, that all this open office shuffling just seems to be a way to guarantee that we won't ask for the 4 day workweek or the 35 hour week, via losing productivity by having coworkers yell in our ears all day. I'm not saying this is intentional, its just management incompetence. They also have no idea what to do with this glut of cheap labor. Shoving us into smaller cubes or open spaces just seems like the next logical move when they hold all the cards.