What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like

Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like by positron4 on Monday November 23, 2015 @07:58PM (#10618480)

An excellent example of emerging Neo-Feudalism! Workers (Programmers, IT, Accountants - any white collar worker) will be housed in the same location as the Owner of the business. It is strikingly similar to Medieval times where Apprentices used to work for employers - usually the Owner. Zoning laws will be changed to suit the businesses. It won't be an issue as long as the businesses are making enough profit to keep people employed and can generate taxes.

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Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like by zachsnow on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @12:20AM (#10619246)

Random capitalization is like scare quotes -- it distracts from the message and focuses the reader on whatever underlying motive or mindset the writer might have.

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Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like by positron4 on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @12:51AM (#10619337)

I did not randomly capitalize. The capitalization has been made for a reason.

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Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like by tbrownaw on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @01:01AM (#10619361)

Pedantry is an excellent way to deliberately miss the point.

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Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like by positron4 on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @02:25AM (#10619570)

Language is a tool to be used effectively. The implications of a particular choice of words (or the capitalizations thereof) might make people uncomfortable. But conciseness is a virtue of its own.

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Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like by gnaritas on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @10:15AM (#10621141)

> Language is a tool to be used effectively.

Which you are failing to do, thus the meta-discussion about your weird capitalization. Were your choices effective, no one would be mentioning it.

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Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like by gnaritas on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @01:05AM (#10619369)

And what reason is there to capitalize all those seemingly random words? It is quite annoying to the reader, they are not proper nouns and have no reason to be capitalized.

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Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like by positron4 on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @01:58AM (#10619506)

Look carefully at my comment. Pick out the words that I have capitalized. There is nothing random about them.

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Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like by polymatter on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @03:46AM (#10619785)

Programmers, accountants, owner, medieval and apprentices are all capitalized where I would leave them uncapitalized. It feels random to me. I put it down to a different writing style.

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Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like by gnaritas on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @10:04AM (#10621073)

They are not proper nouns, and this isn't a contract, so they have no reason to be capitalized. Just because you intend it, doesn't make it correct, it just makes it annoying.

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Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like by morgante on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @04:30AM (#10619904)

I don't get that impression at all.

For one thing, nearly every example from TFA is of the owner living in in the workhome. Having employees live there would be an entirely different proposition.

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Re:What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like by golergka on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @02:54AM (#10619641)

You comment reeks of implication that this is somehow bad. How? Why?

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