Teleworking is a favor ?? Yeah right!...
Nowadays, businesses make it sound like they are offering their employees perks when they tolerate one or mind you two (wow two!) days a week of teleworking.
They even take double credits for that. First they make you think they are so nice and openminded by doing you a favor since very few companies are allowing it, and then they double down by portraying themselves as 'innovative' when they show off as tolerant with the teleworking "novelty".
I am sorry for people believing that non-sense. Actually I am sorry twice because it also affect the few who do not consent to that idea. These few unfortunately have to adapt to this working world shaped by the mistaken perception of the majority.
The perk idea is just garbage in order to keep everyone in line in the office, and in sight, naively seeing this as an effective way to squeeze out more energy from their employees. (Unable to come to peace with the fact that morally tired employees do not perform productively).
How is it garbage ?
Well, I am inclined to think that working at home cannot be a favor, cannot be a perk, simply because it is not the exception. It is not the exception because it has actually been the norm for the longest time in human history...
All along our history, up until the relatively recent industrial revolution, the norm for the majority of the population was to live in rural areas, where most families/villages were close to being self-sufficient. In that world working was done close to home. This has been the norm for centuries, actually millennia.
Working from home is the natural way of working. It is not difficult, it is natural.
Teleworking being a favor, a perk, because outside of the norm, is a perception that should be reevaluated in the face of human history. Going to someone else's place has never been the norm for the masses and should be considered a favor the worker is doing to the corporation. The corporate way of working, mind you, I can even say the corporations themselves, are not the norm in human history.
That is why working from home should be understood as a return to the norm. Our computer networks technologies may be allowing that correction to happen in our social constructs and our ways to live our lifes.
PBL.
