When I met my wife, she had a dog. She made it clear he was part of the package. She told me, “Love me, love my dog!”
An employer has no business with a man’s personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance. Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation.
It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power.
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. Edwards Deming.
You don’t have to move to hybrid working.
You don’t have to downsize your office.
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
“(Remote working is) an aberration that we’re going to correct as soon as possible”
Is Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget just a government version of a normal corporate board-room SNAFU? Consider the parallels:
“Against all odds, working from home was more successful than anyone would have predicted, with many people reporting their productivity had increased during the first two months of lockdown” opines Kerstin Sailer in…
The death of the work factory is here.
OK, we call them offices but they are really just work factories, designed for
- synchronous work (re: time and space)- task completion- linear processes- homogeneity & conformity of…
‘Hybrid work’ is new and sexy, isn’t it?
“The problem with hybrid is that it’s so hard to co-ordinate with others” is a frequently heard complaint from managers.
But what if the problem isn’t hybrid working?
One man, two guvnors. Not just a funny play. It’s also the situation managers are in today.
On the one hand, they are responsible for production, keeping the corporate machine running, hitting their targets for output and quality.