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The future of work is not threatening your employees

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Re: The future of work is not threatening your employees

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Seems like there are a lot of ways that employers are effectively blaming their employees for COVID. Some of the anecdotes in this article really resonated with me. It does feel "super shitty" when you feel as though you've been barely holding it together during what has undoubtedly been one of the most difficult years of the previous century and yet your employer seems to feel entitled to hold you to the usual standards. The tech industry (well, the "business" industry really) lately seems just so utterly inhuman that I've seriously considered getting out of it for good and becoming something like a technological hermit. But I can't be a "business" hermit so I'm still trying to figure that one out.

Afterword: I feel like this post is a good litmus test for identifying which respondents are in the C suite lol.

Re: The future of work is not threatening your employees

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Wow, using an op-ed in the Washington Post to threaten her employees' careers? Where is this one in the How To Be A Great Leader manual? Wouldn't a private internal memo be at least marginally better than picking a fight publicly?

Why are executives, regardless of industry, digging in and going to such great lengths to insist that physical presence in a purpose-built office building is the only possible way to work?

Re: The future of work is not threatening your employees

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post #5

Seems like there are a lot of ways that employers are effectively blaming their employees for COVID. Some of the anecdotes in this article really resonated with me. It does feel "super shitty" when you feel as though you've been barely holding it together during what has undoubtedly been one of the most difficult years of the previous century and yet your employer seems to feel entitled to hold you to the usual stand…

"during what has undoubtedly been one of the most difficult years of the previous century"

That seems a bit hyperbolic.

Re: The future of work is not threatening your employees

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post #5

Seems like there are a lot of ways that employers are effectively blaming their employees for COVID. Some of the anecdotes in this article really resonated with me. It does feel "super shitty" when you feel as though you've been barely holding it together during what has undoubtedly been one of the most difficult years of the previous century and yet your employer seems to feel entitled to hold you to the usual stand…

"during what has undoubtedly been one of the most difficult years of the previous century" That seems a bit hyperbolic.

Lol, really? A pandemic doesn't count?

Re: The future of work is not threatening your employees

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"during what has undoubtedly been one of the most difficult years of the previous century" That seems a bit hyperbolic.

Lol, really? A pandemic doesn't count?

Perhaps that should say "this century" because the 21st century has got nothing on the 20th.
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