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Monday, April 18, 2022

#WorkFromHome Will Save Cities


I've been saying "the 'good' things about city life will move to where the customers and audiences live and work."
  • "Broadway" moves off-broadway into the burbs and countryside...
  • Marc Forgione opens in Brighton...
  • The local coffee joint builds a conference room...
  • 5G helps telepresence flourish...
All the good things about cities will move closer to their customers and audiences.  Makes sense.

But there is something else - Remote Workers will save NYC.

How many of Us have ever lived?




I've often contemplated this very question.  Where are all the dead people?


Productivity is Up & Employees are Happy



I’ve been saying this from the beginning, management, upper management and C Level people must be shaking in their boots as decades of redundancy and inefficiency come to light under remote working.

Productivity went UP and employees are happier.

What will be improved by RTO?

If you say productivity, you’re ignoring facts. When you say ‘culture’ you are manipulative and transparent.

People may come back to the plantation but they won’t be happy about it.

All the Blue Jean Fridays, 2% raises, & ping pong tables, won’t make up for the cold dinners, missed recitals, chaotic schedules for doctor and vet appointments, and boorish coworkers.

Of course, there are people who WANT to get back to an office - there always are.

Good video, here...



Friday, April 15, 2022

With 1 Sentence, Google's CEO Revealed the Best Reason NOT to Return to the Office I've Heard Yet.

The argument is self-centered concentrating on a"community" based on employer location, not the employees'.

Google has 9.5 billion reasons to keep knowledge workers on the plantation - not a sense of community.

From the article:

"Pichai says Google is spending $9.5 billion on offices and data centers this year...

Pichai points out another overlooked reason for returning to the office. The physical space your business occupies provides a "vital anchor" to your local community. It creates a connection that doesn't exist with a distributed team working in different places.

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Eight Reasons the MetaVerse is better than Hybrid Work


#WorkFromAnywhere #wfh is all the talk now and so is:
  • the effect of Covid vs the effect of the fear of Covid
  • gas prices are too high
  • increased productivity
  • happier with 'work', vs working
  • office appearances are lower in priorities than family, fun, Netflix, & sweatpants 
  • real friends (vs work friends)
  • lower crime in the 'burbs
  •  etc., etc., etc.

Musk Uses His F*ck You Money

How about this guy...the absolute literal definition of "F*ck ewe $":

“I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.  As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter, and a 38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced,”. 

“My offer is my best and final offer and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder.”

...and heads blow up all over the world...next on the block?

FaceBook. After that?  Universities/higher education.

Twitter is no different than FB or Google(Meta or Alphabet). 

Consider Musk as a player in the MetaVerse.  Giving everyone on the planet a shared experience through telepresence, of a walk on Mars.

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