Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work
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Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work
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Re: Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work
#2The homestead of the future is one where multiple generations live together while working remotely. Knowledge work had been reducible to bits for 20 years, now they can be transmitted anywhere in milliseconds, just in time for a family lunch or dinner or movie.
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#3The homestead of the future is one where multiple generations live together while working remotely. Knowledge work had been reducible to bits for 20 years, now they can be transmitted anywhere in milliseconds, just in time for a family lunch or dinner or movie.
It sounds nice, but there are extremely large segments that keep society functioning that don't involve knowledge work and can't be done remotely. It's easy to forget how much it takes behind the scences to keep the machine humming smoothly.
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#4The homestead of the future is one where multiple generations live together while working remotely. Knowledge work had been reducible to bits for 20 years, now they can be transmitted anywhere in milliseconds, just in time for a family lunch or dinner or movie.
It sounds nice, but there are extremely large segments that keep society functioning that don't involve knowledge work and can't be done remotely. It's easy to forget how much it takes behind the scences to keep the machine humming smoothly.
> It's easy to forget how much it takes behind the scences to keep the machine humming smoothly.
Until your toilet gets clogged.
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#5"Netherlands enjoy the highest subjective measure of life satisfaction among all OECD countries. Perhaps one reason is that their mothers are also among the most likely to work part-time."
I'm from the Netherlands and can confirm that the 1.5 model is very common. Typically the man has the full-time job and the wife works part-time and combines it with care for the children on the other days. On days where both parents work, often grandparents help out, if not possible it's daycare, which soon will be made free.
Cynical people may think of it as a semi-old-fashioned model, but I couldn't disagree more. I know many such couples and these women see this as a "best of both worlds" situation where they both contribute to society and have invaluable quality time with their children. Some may start to work more hours once the kids are in school, but many just stay on this lifestyle, or then proceed to take care of aging parents. Quite a lot have a job in care, which means altogether their lives evolve around being with people and caring for them. They want to live this way and provide an invaluable service to family and society.
Men often have a parent day, which is one day of unpaid leave per week for the first 2 years. Another variation of the model is 2 x 4, where both parents work 4 days as it slowly gets more acceptable for men to work part-time too.
The important part is of course to have options, so that each can find their own ideal balance.
Re: Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work
#6The homestead of the future is one where multiple generations live together while working remotely. Knowledge work had been reducible to bits for 20 years, now they can be transmitted anywhere in milliseconds, just in time for a family lunch or dinner or movie.
Transmitted anywhere in milliseconds also means transmitted to a lower cost country, so be careful with this flexibility.
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#7The homestead of the future is one where multiple generations live together while working remotely. Knowledge work had been reducible to bits for 20 years, now they can be transmitted anywhere in milliseconds, just in time for a family lunch or dinner or movie.
Transmitted anywhere in milliseconds also means transmitted to a lower cost country, so be careful with this flexibility.
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#8The homestead of the future is one where multiple generations live together while working remotely. Knowledge work had been reducible to bits for 20 years, now they can be transmitted anywhere in milliseconds, just in time for a family lunch or dinner or movie.
It sounds nice, but there are extremely large segments that keep society functioning that don't involve knowledge work and can't be done remotely. It's easy to forget how much it takes behind the scences to keep the machine humming smoothly.
Indeed. It is a considerable oddity how very material the lives of us wealthy knowledge workers are, yet how immaterial our labor.
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#9"Netherlands enjoy the highest subjective measure of life satisfaction among all OECD countries. Perhaps one reason is that their mothers are also among the most likely to work part-time." I'm from the Netherlands and can confirm that the 1.5 model is very common. Typically the man has the full-time job and the wife works part-time and combines it with care for the children on the other days. On days where both paren…
> Cynical people may think of it as a semi-old-fashioned model, but I couldn't disagree more.
I think it's beautiful for one parent to set aside more time for raising children. The part that's old-fashioned is the assumption that this person will be the mother. Your comment makes it sound like full-time mothers and part-time fathers are still very uncommon.
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#10The homestead of the future is one where multiple generations live together while working remotely. Knowledge work had been reducible to bits for 20 years, now they can be transmitted anywhere in milliseconds, just in time for a family lunch or dinner or movie.
Sounds like hell to me, I left home at 16.