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{{image|Home office|jpg|The [[JC]]’s [[home office]] yesterday}} | |||
}}The ''reductio ad | }}The ''reductio ad absurdum'' — sorry, my mistake: I mean ''logical conclusion'' — of [[middle management]]’s generational headlong stampede towards [[outsourcing]] all those messy externalities that are a by-product of needing [[meatware]] to carry out your business objectives. | ||
For all the — well, ''chat'' — [[chatbot]]s haven’t yet managed to supplant those cretinous lumps who are needed push whatever buttons must be pushed to propel the great steampunk corporation forward. | For all the — well, ''chat'' — [[chatbot]]s haven’t yet managed to supplant those cretinous lumps who are needed push whatever buttons must be pushed to propel the great steampunk corporation forward. | ||
But since said cretinous lumps became capable of glibly infecting each other with fatal illness, and the corporate world was obliged to locate a safe remove at which these oafs could operate without accidentally murdering each other, it has dawned on the management layer that since all buttons were now digital, with this new-fangled internet thing they could push buttons to their hearts’ content — well, to their overlords’ hearts’ content, at any rate — from the comfort of their own homes. | |||
This was regarded at first as a regrettable evil, but surprised all by working very well, over a prolonged period. This in turn prompted diametrically opposite instincts in the management layer — frequently within the same individuals. | |||
For on one hand, outsourcing the very space one’s employees occupy to those very same employees, who were prepared to provide it free of charge represented an enormous windfall opportunity. | |||
On the other hand, it prompted the question of whether these employees, and the digital buttons they had been doggedly pushing all this time, were really necessary at all. | |||
=== The good old days === | |||
Now 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. | Now 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. | ||