In hindsight of course of the epiphanies I had back when.
Silicon Valley has a lot of me too culture. No one should work from home. We need to tear down the walls (of the cubicles that is). These are some of the (moronic) dictats of not too long ago.
These were fueled by greedy capitalist leaders who were either lacking in their own mental capacity to do original thinking or were being sycophantic to an extent because a then so and so tech leader said so and they had the FOMO.
Both to me then sounded silly if not outrageous. Some leaders and managers decided having people work remote was a recipe for disaster since you might lose productivity and still spend on that resource. Well - if you cannot trust your employee to make a rational decision, then shame on you. Get rid of these employees or better yet get rid of yourself since you cannot run a (for profit) business on mistrust.
Same with the walls. While Dilbertian comedy is sometimes on the mark, the cubicle culture grew after years of figuring out what worked. To suddenly get on the collaboration bandwagon and some Mckinseisque recommendation of how open spaces foster better information sharing (all those goofy glass tablets that everyone has notwithstanding) companies big and small started tearing down the walls at fairly large expense (which is another matter when it comes to conserving capital).
Enter a pandemic. The rest as they say might be history. If we as a species don't end up as one. GLTA.
Silicon Valley has a lot of me too culture. No one should work from home. We need to tear down the walls (of the cubicles that is). These are some of the (moronic) dictats of not too long ago.
These were fueled by greedy capitalist leaders who were either lacking in their own mental capacity to do original thinking or were being sycophantic to an extent because a then so and so tech leader said so and they had the FOMO.
Both to me then sounded silly if not outrageous. Some leaders and managers decided having people work remote was a recipe for disaster since you might lose productivity and still spend on that resource. Well - if you cannot trust your employee to make a rational decision, then shame on you. Get rid of these employees or better yet get rid of yourself since you cannot run a (for profit) business on mistrust.
Same with the walls. While Dilbertian comedy is sometimes on the mark, the cubicle culture grew after years of figuring out what worked. To suddenly get on the collaboration bandwagon and some Mckinseisque recommendation of how open spaces foster better information sharing (all those goofy glass tablets that everyone has notwithstanding) companies big and small started tearing down the walls at fairly large expense (which is another matter when it comes to conserving capital).
Enter a pandemic. The rest as they say might be history. If we as a species don't end up as one. GLTA.
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