At Work, Managers And Execs Want To Be Deified
Many work-related issues flow downward from there.
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Good newsletter from
about “why bosses are so miserable.” That’s a question I’ve been chasing for the last 10 years, with much less fanfare than her. The main pop of the newsletter is her talking to a VP at Slack associated with the “Future Forum.” Obviously Slack has a noted predilection towards remote work, and that should be (and, thankfully, is) noted in the newsletter. There are a couple of good parts, and let me point you to two-three:Who tends to work flexibly
And that’s one area where we still need to work on changing when it comes to equity — especially as some people are in the office, and some people are not. The concern I have is that those who prefer to work flexibly tend to be working mothers, women, and employees of color. Those who prefer to be in the office full-time tend to be male, white, executives (with commas between each of those). If we continue to celebrate folks who are nearby, who are first in-last-to-leave, we’re actually going to see a lot of the equity gains from the last few years get erased. So we really need to focus, and train managers to focus on the outcomes and the value that people are delivering, rather than the time that they’re spending in the office.
Indeed. Remember 2020 and George Floyd and all these social uprisings that were happening and everything is crazy? Indeed. Obviously a lot of it was performative, but now what’s happening is we’re dragging all these fools back, and the people who can’t come back are those people we were supposedly “lifting up” and “amplifying” like, 20 months ago. Now we’re just grinding them under the wheels of capitalism? “Want flexibility? Too bad, Susan. Targets to hit!”
That begs the next question: WHY are we bringing these people back if they can be productive at home, or at WeWork, or at the coffee shop?
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