It gives up one form of control but exchanges it for another. The flock of middle managers don’t get to pop in and watch 20 people to make sure they’re at their desks and look at their screens and give pointless little instructions for everyone else to see and haggle about the coffee maker, sure. But remote workers can also barely communicate with one another without using official, recordable company resources. This is a boon to office job union busters, they can just search for “union” in their Slack instance’s private messages and channels and fire the troublemakers.
I’d like to toss an explanation on top of real estate interests and wanting control: CEOs are petty, megalomaniacal idiots that work against their own interests on a regular basis and are constantly rewarded for it by the bureaucratic structure of the company.
It means giving up control and thus the ability to keep workers in line.
It gives up one form of control but exchanges it for another. The flock of middle managers don’t get to pop in and watch 20 people to make sure they’re at their desks and look at their screens and give pointless little instructions for everyone else to see and haggle about the coffee maker, sure. But remote workers can also barely communicate with one another without using official, recordable company resources. This is a boon to office job union busters, they can just search for “union” in their Slack instance’s private messages and channels and fire the troublemakers.
I’d like to toss an explanation on top of real estate interests and wanting control: CEOs are petty, megalomaniacal idiots that work against their own interests on a regular basis and are constantly rewarded for it by the bureaucratic structure of the company.