Re:Want employees to return to the office? Then give each on...
by higeorge13 on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @11:20AM
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This is a modern requirement of having to talk to people other than your family and friends. If you were a farmer or shepherd or fisherman or … 50 years ago, to whom would you talk during the day and work? Probably noone. You would just talk to your family when back at home.
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Re:Want employees to return to the office? Then give each on...
by johnnyanmac on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @09:56PM
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>If you were a farmer or shepherd or fisherman or … 50 years ago, to whom would you talk during the day and work?
Co-workers? their boss? some entity of the company they are employed by?
Are these farmers/fishermen working solo? it could be their family, but generally in such a situation their family is also employing teenage labor in the form of offspring.
>You would just talk to your family when back at home.
how does that work when you have no family? In the classic times you'd also gather around at a bar to discuss the day with strangers. That doesn't quite work out so well in modern urban environments where even bars come in as groups.