Countering A ‘Return To The Office’
Is your company mandating a return to Victorian operations? Help is at hand!
An Introductory Verse
Unfortunately, as you know all too well as a progressive software engineer, many managerial types still remain under the outdated mindset¹ that truly productive and innovative work can only be performed at the company bricks and mortar office.
Even pre-pandemic this view was widely known to be false by the technicals and oft derided on clandestine char channels². It’s often referred to as a ‘bums-on-seats’ attitude to productivity and is propagated endlessly by the controlling, less progressive, and backward looking managerial classes.
Now, however, with the extended mandate of remote working across great swathes of the software world, we (the actually progressive and forward looking workforce of software engineers) have overwhelming demonstrated that we’re happier³, more productive, and generally more amenable when ‘allowed’ choice in where we work.
Yes, we can be amenable. Talk to us, but not about adjusting the font size in your crazy drug-addled presentation or about which HDMI lead to use in your home theatre system!
If you look around the industry right now, at time of writing in January 2022, there is a great movement of software…
