Re:Microsoft's dystopian pitch for remote work
by bronbron on Friday November 15, 2013 @12:19PM
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> If you want to work, the advertised technology enables you to work
You want to work at your kid's soccer game? During a date? During happy hour?
If the campaign was, "Work from home easily one day a week" this blog post wouldn't exist. The debate here has nothing to do with remote work as a concept. Many people have a problem with work-life balance and it's insensitive at best and dystopian at worst for Microsoft to basically say, "Hey, why aren't you working while your date's in the bathroom?"
You want to work at your kid's soccer game? During a date? During happy hour?
If the campaign was, "Work from home easily one day a week" this blog post wouldn't exist. The debate here has nothing to do with remote work as a concept. Many people have a problem with work-life balance and it's insensitive at best and dystopian at worst for Microsoft to basically say, "Hey, why aren't you working while your date's in the bathroom?"