The Office is Dying: Its Time to Rethink How We Work

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11. Companies will gladly sacrifice productivity in favor of authoritarian control

It absolutely galls employers to think that their team might be working from home in comfortable clothes in a comfortable chair, instead of laboring under soul-killing lights in an office veal pen.

In addition, a great deal of management’s time is devoted to counting bathroom breaks and making sure that employees aren’t smiling between tasks; if you get rid of the need for such pointless oversight, how will you justify those management jobs?

Before anyone says “that’s not how companies work,” I’ve been in the workforce for over 30 years, and that is exactly how companies work.