Re:Coronavirus may mean automation is coming sooner than we ...
by perl4ever on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @09:54PM
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Well predicting some companies will do something can't be wrong.
But working from home will expose a lot of stuff that can be done from home, a lot of employees who turn out to prefer working from home, and a lot of CEOs and accountants and so on will realize a lot of money can be saved on real estate. People are being quoted in the news along these lines, you don't have to anticipate it.
Re:Coronavirus may mean automation is coming sooner than we ...
by anpago on Thursday April 23, 2020 @06:27PM
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Agreed but it will also expose many who simply can't work at home also.
I am a advocate for working from home. But I know plenty of people and roles who are suffering a great deal from working from home.
At the moment it seems equally likely that some companies come out of all of this with the "lesson" that remote work caused their downturn in productivity and stock value (who can remember that every other company experienced the same when your investors only care "what have you done lately?" and "what have you done 'proactively'?") and we'll quickly see a return to "everybody needs to be in the office together" culture back backed by the same consultants that learned the wrong lessons after Marissa Mayer's Yahoo! house cleaning and were still badly ratcheting companies towards as miserable as possible colocation strategies.
It seems about 50/50 to me right now which group will prevail. At least with US public traded companies the only inertia seems to whatever shiny fad stock traders are enamored with versus whatever misery HPCs manage to sell on golf courses in C-Suite handshakes. (ETA: Some of whom, the worst stock investors and HPCs are the same people, of course.)