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There was a time where employment in the professions afforded status in society, and one had the accoutrements to match: an office with a mahogany desk, an Elephant’s foot umbrella stand in the corner, a minute secretary, an executive model Dictaphone, and so on. | There was a time where employment in the professions afforded status in society, and one had the accoutrements to match: an office with a mahogany desk, an Elephant’s foot umbrella stand in the corner, a minute secretary, an executive model Dictaphone, and so on. | ||
As management [[dogma]] has systematically eroded these privileges in the name of cost reduction, the poor professional has been denuded of | As management [[dogma]] has systematically eroded these privileges in the name of cost reduction, the poor professional has been denuded of her status. Increasingly, she has been expected to supply her ''own'' accoutrements: do-it-yourself typing; [[bring your own device]] — and the same time that once commodious office became communal, then lost its door, then its walls, diminished to a dedicated space on along a row in a floor, then become a conditionally guaranteed space at some terminal somewhere in the building, provided ebnough people are out sick or on holiday and she could find a spare [[telescreen]]. While these progressions undoubtedly looked magnificent on that PowerPoint presentation to the [[steerco]], we suspect that something important might have been obscured by in the winking row of uniform green [[RAG status]] signals on the workstream update [[dashboard]]. But — the prgamatist’s prayer, and all that. | ||
[[Coronavirus]] bounced us all into a step further: you don’t get an office ''at all'', but have to ''supply your own''. By and large, and to their great surprise, | Nonetheless, out of nowhere, [[Coronavirus]] bounced us all into a step further: you don’t get an office ''at all'', but have to ''supply your own''. As as aside, pity the poor, perma-prepared cub scouts from the [[business continuity management]] team — who have been waiting for literally decades for just such a catastrophe to spring into action and finally reveal their worth, but whom [[coronavirus]] largely snookered. Just when you need it, that sprawling warehouse near Luton Airport was no more suitable for operations than the premises in EC4! | ||
Instead, employees were sent ''home''. By and large, and to their great surprise, they found this an agreeable development. Suddenly the privacy, the space, the peace & quiet, the Elephant’s foot and the mahogany desk were back from nowhere. | |||
The question now: is there any going back? | |||
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*[[The new normal]] | *[[The new normal]] | ||