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The Unspoken Advantage Of Remote Working
That which never, ever must be named. Especially in front of middle-managers!
There’s already a huge amount of compelling evidence out there regarding the positive benefits of remote working, most especially since the practice became mainstream as a result of the recent pandemic.
Aside from the obvious benefits of saving employee’s their precious time and money, as commuting was always fundamentally about punishing workers through endless mandatory unpaid overtime, the improvements in quality of life, mental health, and efficiency in doing actual work all very loudly speak for themselves.
After all, putting yourself repeatedly through a gruelling commute, paying for it with your own time and money, then being surveilled eight hours (or more) a day by a vindictive middle-manager clad in man-made fibres (and, as a result, a cloud of dangerously electrified spite) to within an inch of what life you had remaining is hardly conducive to a low stress, high quality, and peak performance lifestyle is it?
Employees have always worked harder, longer, and just overall in a better¹ fashion when they’re respected, trusted, and paid well.
Unfortunately, those are the three things than the modern corporate dystopia actively suppresses in the day to day workings of the grist mill of…
