The idea of perpetual productivity increases is total horseshit.
Hiring unqualified personnel will always decrease output.
I QC distribution engineering jobs.
The number of mistakes per job has multiplied in direct correlation to women and minority hires.
If I had to go into the office, I would get fired for speaking the truth.
I take my time and write things down, contemplate, then send the email.
Mediocrity is treasured above all things..................
“If I had to go into the office, I would get fired for speaking the truth.”
I take my time and write things down, contemplate, then send the email.
Before the Covid stay at home stuff hit, she was driving 30 heavy traffic miles each way on her daily round trip to the office to do a job that she was able to do in her home office. The company she worked for, footed the bill to make her home office capable of handling her info job.
She decided not to return to the 30 mile away office and do a competitive home job. The first few months, were tough as she had no financing from her previous office job. Now she spends 2-3 days a week running her home office business. Her original employer pays her on an hourly basis without the tough commute and the office B$. She refuses to do any of the B$ the regular office wants her to do.
I do contract engineering for aircraft companies. I worked for a major manufacturer for several months helping get new hires use to carbon fiber. There was an entire division of “R&D” they kept just to keep the diversity and AA hires out of the actual production and design. (unfortunately HR was infested with AA hires who were the nastiest most racist ratchets one can imagine) Everyone knew the scam but they were forced to do it to keep government enforced numbers. And of course when the brochures came out all the photos were of the diversity squad looking very busy doing very important stuff, aka, nothing.
Later the company asked if I wanted to work full time at their shop in Ferguson to train new hires right when the Saint Floyd of Fentanyl riots started. I laughed mightily at that one.
cal state employees were encouraged to work at home. Circa 1990s Of course that would save gas, and lighten the freeway load some days.
But it required management approval. I was chief of training for a mid-sized department. When my employees didn’t need to be in class they could do their research on designing classes, make calls, write memos and lesson plans from home.
Then we got a director who couldn’t understand how managers could measure results and not have to watch people work. That was the end of work at home.
Then the state went to 9-80; work 9 days 80 hours get a monday or friday off every other week, not bad Freeway traffic good on Mon and Fri in Sacramento where we had 200,000 state employees.
Some jobs need people there some don’t. the key is to figure out which ones and judge people by their completed work.