“Gesture Management” by Companies regarding Remote Working
It’s best not to believe the hype, or you’ll be back behind a desk in six months.
I read an article this morning in a national newspaper here detailing how some ‘leading employers’ were forming an alliance to discuss (and facilitate in some ways) hybrid¹ and remote working in Ireland.
The quote that stood out for me was,
“Our model will give our employees the flexibility they want, while maintaining the opportunity for social interaction and the collaboration and innovation that comes from being together in the office.”
— Anne O’Leary, chief executive of Vodafone Ireland
Call me cynical if you will, but decades of experience of the workplace, both in academia and industry, along with the continued ongoing observation of the slow motion car crash interaction of politics, economics, and working people just sets off the alarm bells inside me.
There are always subtexts in political statements and political statements aren’t always trumpeted by politicians. Management modus operandi dictates that once a manager rises above a certain level in the management hierarchy their allegiance switches from being one managing or representing their underlings to one managing or representing the business².
