With all of the accusations of posts being bots, I began to think of my over posting and decided to just group together stuff I found that correlate with each other. I've mostly run into stuff about jobs and remote work, so here we go.
First up, managers believe people who work in an office work better because they are being monitored.
This follows up with the second article, people seeking jobs and jobs being offered have shown a decline in remote work. It doesn't really show much because the remote workers want a desk at random times away from their house.
However, the third article shows that the bosses and workers may just be using weaponized incompetence. This is where someone feigns incompetence so others will do their work. Bosses use that to have underlings work harder.
At the same time, AI and automation is taking away jobs quickly. If there are no workers there is no need for a boss. All we need now is a brain computer, which is my last article.
I've said my job exists because people are stupid. I don't care though because I'm well paid and I can do it in my pajamas. If I don't do my job it's evident right away so working remote isn't that big of a deal. I do feel I dick around less when I'm in the office but at the same time thanks to muh open floor plan there are way more distractions and its a lot harder to buckle down and focus.
I had a job once that involved doing 6 house calls over a 10 hour period, split into four hour blocks. I was always able to get my 6 calls done with at least 2 hours to spare and sometimes 4-5 hours, at which point there was no incentive for me to do extra work. Some techs were hopeless and could barely get through half their calls and were always begging me to take their jobs to help them out. Yet we got paid the same. Place had HIGH turnover.
Friend of mine is a trucker and they throw in all kinds of incentives. If he makes extra stops he gets paid for each one. More work directly means more money.