Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees

Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by tayo42 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @08:40PM (#27455353)

I wish society learned that there are things more important then corporate efficiency. Maybe optimizing for our quality of life should take precedence over squeezing out that last 10% of work effectiveness.

I recently read Russel Bertrand's essay "In praise of idleness", he made this observation that work efficiency dropped during the world war but life still went on. This was from switching to production for the world war over consumer stuff. His overall point was we should have kept the same amount of consumer work we were doing but get rid of the war production and just kind of chill and enjoy life. I think there's a parallel to the pandemic, where we made this big adjustment, maybe we were less productive, but with wfh quality of life went up in a way. Maybe we are OK with less effectiveness. The world as we can see didn't end, despite a decent effort.

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Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by Mauricebranagh on Thursday June 10, 2021 @04:20AM (#27458295)

A lot of consumer production was halted or radically slowed during ww2. I suspect a University Don was insulated from a lot of those shortages

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Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by 1270018080 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @10:01PM (#27455901)

Europe seemed to have realized this a long time ago. Many Americans still make work much of their identity, and worshiping The Line (the stock market) is in direct conflict with labor rights.

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Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by tayo42 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @10:18PM (#27456006)

I'm hoping the pandemic is a trigger for a cultural shift. There still seems to be a bit of "get back to work" attitude though.

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