Productivity is Up & Employees are Happy

I’ve been saying this from the beginning, management, upper management and C Level people must be shaking in their boots as decades of redundancy and inefficiency come to light under remote working.

Productivity went UP and employees are happier.

What will be improved by RTO?

If you say productivity, you’re ignoring facts. When you say ‘culture’ you are manipulative and transparent.

People may come back to the plantation but they won’t be happy about it.

All the Blue Jean Fridays, 2% raises, & ping pong tables, won’t make up for the cold dinners, missed recitals, chaotic schedules for doctor and vet appointments, and boorish coworkers.

Of course, there are people who WANT to get back to an office - there always are.

Good video, here...

With 1 Sentence, Google's CEO Revealed the Best Reason NOT to Return to the Office I've Heard Yet.

The argument is self-centered concentrating on a"community" based on employer location, not the employees'.

Google has 9.5 billion reasons to keep knowledge workers on the plantation - not a sense of community.

From the article:

"Pichai says Google is spending $9.5 billion on offices and data centers this year...

Pichai points out another overlooked reason for returning to the office. The physical space your business occupies provides a "vital anchor" to your local community. It creates a connection that doesn't exist with a distributed team working in different places.

Eight Reasons the MetaVerse is better than Hybrid Work

#WorkFromAnywhere #wfh is all the talk now and so is:

• the effect of Covid vs the effect of the fear of Covid
• gas prices are too high
• increased productivity
• happier with 'work', vs working
• office appearances are lower in priorities than family, fun, Netflix, & sweatpants 
• real friends (vs work friends)
• lower crime in the 'burbs
•  etc., etc., etc.

Musk Uses His F*ck You Money

How about this guy...the absolute literal definition of "F*ck ewe $":

“I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.  As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter, and a 38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced,”. 

“My offer is my best and final offer and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder.”

...and heads blow up all over the world...next on the block?

FaceBook. After that?  Universities/higher education.

Twitter is no different than FB or Google(Meta or Alphabet). 

Consider Musk as a player in the MetaVerse.  Giving everyone on the planet a shared experience through telepresence, of a walk on Mars.

Unions at Amazon

I was reading how Amazon employees voted to unionize at one DC and it got me thinking about robots. Robots don't vote. Or strike. Or catch Covid...or even spread Covid.

Then I read about it will be another ten years before "fully automated shipping warehouses" are a thing.

I don't believe Amazon.

Read the article here.

The Luddite Falsehood

"The Luddite fallacy is the simple observation that new technology does not lead to higher overall unemployment in the economy. New technology doesn’t destroy jobs – it only changes the composition of jobs in the economy.

Historical background

The Luddites were a group of English textile workers who violently destroyed machines. They broke up power looms because they feared that these new machines were taking their jobs and livelihoods.

Against the backdrop of the economic hardship following the Napoleonic wars, new automated looms meant clothing could be made with fewer lower-skilled workers. The new machines were more productive, but some workers lost their relatively highly paid jobs as a result. It was this unemployment of former skilled workers which led to the industrial unrest and direct action."

Read the rest here.

Last week, the 15th week of 2022

Last week, the 15th week of 2022 -

Unions at Amazon. Musk, the once Hero of Technology, bought Twitter (the employees go nuts), and teachers acted badly - 1200 bodies of civilians in Ukraine.

Unions are on their last breath -Robots will not participate in a Great Resignation. Nothing is going to stop Alexa, Cortana, or Siri.