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The other is the Man’s, and it is, “get back the the office, you punks”. With a twist: the Man teetered for a while between that — “these good-for-naught [[Meatware|meatsack]]s are in their goddamn ''pajamas'' and I’m not having ''that'' on my dime” but the COO got fidgety and said “hold on, Clive, we can sublet half the office and slash our IT bill if these clowns work remotely on their own PCs let’s just think about it for a bit” — so they compromised by cutting office space ''and'' making everyone come back to work. | The other is the Man’s, and it is, “get back the the office, you punks”. With a twist: the Man teetered for a while between that — “these good-for-naught [[Meatware|meatsack]]s are in their goddamn ''pajamas'' and I’m not having ''that'' on my dime” but the COO got fidgety and said “hold on, Clive, we can sublet half the office and slash our IT bill if these clowns work remotely on their own PCs let’s just think about it for a bit” — so they compromised by cutting office space ''and'' making everyone come back to work. | ||
Which is right? Well, neither, naturally, for the reasons stated, but the Man is on the right side of history in terms of how things will play out. For a few reasons, but mainly because, as ever, this time ''isn’t'' different. | Which is right? Well, neither, naturally, for the reasons stated, but the Man is on the right side of history in terms of how things will play out. For a few reasons, but mainly because, as ever, [[This time it’s different|this time ''isn’t'' different]]. | ||
===It isn’t COVID any more=== | |||
It is true that working from home during COVID was, for professional office working types, an overwhelming success, and by some measures productivity ''rose'' over the period beforehand, but we should not conclude that the case is closed. COVID was a weird, sui generis time. Firstly, there was nothing else to do, no watercooler moments to distract, and the office busybodies who arranged the multiple hours of weekly stakeholder | |||
===Pace layers: things revert to how they were.=== | ===Pace layers: things revert to how they were.=== | ||