The Fair Work Commission is considering basic rights to work from home. Here’s what the evidence says about the impacts of working from home on physical health and mental wellbeing.
Is it not a contradiction? Why don’t we see hogs ripping each others faces off fighting about whether labor discipline or squeezing more profit out is more important?
It might be, but until the day when a company that publicly embraces work-from-home as the preferred norm defeats another company that does not, it won’t be acknowledged as such by the actors in the system.
Is it not a contradiction? Why don’t we see hogs ripping each others faces off fighting about whether labor discipline or squeezing more profit out is more important?
Doing something out of the ordinary as a manager will get you blamed if anything goes wrong. Doing the ordinary will not. There is pressure on management in companies to continue doing things like this even if they are known to reduce productivity.
disclaimer, this is a rough observation, definitely not a robust analysis.
the other flank exists, but it’s largely cordoned off to start-ups and the odd private company. some companies implement these policies, but because competition is very much not real for most of the economy in the current stage of capitalism (especially in America), work policy is ordained mainly by a cadre of coordinated monopolists.
beyond this, class interest writ large of the western bourgeoisie currently is to stamp out any working class momentum that could form, given the heightening contradictions coming to roost with China’s ascendance and America’s stagnation. There’s a new cadre unwilling to make the social concessions of their forefathers to combat socialism, instead taking an even more militant approach and embracing domestic fascism. Throw in deeply-rooted ideology w/rt the protestant work ethic and grind culture as well as the need to be able to assert hierarchy on their subordinates.
Is it not a contradiction? Why don’t we see hogs ripping each others faces off fighting about whether labor discipline or squeezing more profit out is more important?
It might be, but until the day when a company that publicly embraces work-from-home as the preferred norm defeats another company that does not, it won’t be acknowledged as such by the actors in the system.
Doing something out of the ordinary as a manager will get you blamed if anything goes wrong. Doing the ordinary will not. There is pressure on management in companies to continue doing things like this even if they are known to reduce productivity.
disclaimer, this is a rough observation, definitely not a robust analysis.
the other flank exists, but it’s largely cordoned off to start-ups and the odd private company. some companies implement these policies, but because competition is very much not real for most of the economy in the current stage of capitalism (especially in America), work policy is ordained mainly by a cadre of coordinated monopolists.
beyond this, class interest writ large of the western bourgeoisie currently is to stamp out any working class momentum that could form, given the heightening contradictions coming to roost with China’s ascendance and America’s stagnation. There’s a new cadre unwilling to make the social concessions of their forefathers to combat socialism, instead taking an even more militant approach and embracing domestic fascism. Throw in deeply-rooted ideology w/rt the protestant work ethic and grind culture as well as the need to be able to assert hierarchy on their subordinates.