Overheard conversation, at the digital watercooler: Greg to GPT, "Is your statement opinion?

Overheard conversation, at the digital watercooler:

Greg to GPT, "Is your statement opinion?

'As we navigate this complex landscape, it is our collective responsibility to foster a spirit of collaboration, empathy, and determination, ensuring that our actions today lay the groundwork for a brighter, more equitable tomorrow..."

GPT says, " Yes, the statement 'As we navigate this complex landscape, it is our collective responsibility to foster a spirit of collaboration, empathy, and determination, ensuring that our actions today lay the groundwork for a brighter, more equitable tomorrow' can be considered an opinion.

The Silent Exodus: How Quiet Quitting Is Reshaping the Business World and Office Technology(2% Raise)

 They Came, They Saw, They Quietly Quit

Greg's Words

Do what your job description says to do.  There should be no shame in working within those parameters.

Let's put it this way, when you're responsible, through the job description, to complete X number of tasks or deliver Y amount of revenue, or produce Z quantities of corporate events, and you achieve these goals within a determined time frame, you are entitled to a pat on the back, raise, bonus or whatever is stated in your employee agreement.  

Fulfilling your part of the Employee Agreement is NOT QUIET QUITTING.  When you do what the job entails and no more, you are not lazy.

Yet this is what the established structures, have labeled the activity of completing your job according to specification and doing no more.

Doing "what's best for the company" was a belief that when you do, the company would take care of you via salary or promotion, etc. It is a lie finally recognized.

"Team Players do whatever it takes..." This is true when the team members have a clear, identified, common goal that when accomplished, benefits both the team and the individuals.  Furthermore, each team member knows their place in the overall strategy and although one member may be asked to perform above and beyond, in general, the roles do not change, and are not exchangeable.

I guess the biggest thing here is finally understanding that the 'social contract' between employee and employer is finally in the light of day.

Regardless, here is a researched article we put together for you...

Enjoy!

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The Unintended Consequences of Remote Work: A Tectonic Shift in Office Technology and Urban Landscapes

Remote working - the love child of technological advancements and pajamas.

Greg's Words

The times are crazy and there seem to be no boundaries; we've left hyperbole in the rearview.  I've seen a few revolutions in my time, so there are familiar threads, flavors, and hints but nothing has been so accelerated and universally impactful as the current run on artificial intelligence.  AI has been brought down, landing squarely on our frontal lobes.

Like never before in time.  The Wheel. The Discovery of Fire.  The first tool.

People smarter than me are using the same words and phrases I am - this is the Big One.

Of course, all is not roses and bubble gum on the road to digital enlightenment.  There are risks; Mary Shelly's Modern Prometheus and the story of Colossus come to mind.  Some see AI as destroying mankind, ridding the planet of its cancerous inhabitants. My thoughts on this?  If were to happen, it would have by now.

But how is The Convergence going to help you sell more widgets?

"I don't know, I'm making this up as I go..."

What I do know, is the fear of covid changed the way we work(and print) the way we move information, and the way we finally see management.  Management is redundant.

What I do know is that AI duplicates all our manual processes faster and better because it accumulates every iteration of a plan and all the possible impacts, predicting outcomes on what it has seen and processed. AI scares us.

What I do know is office buildings are vacant, and cities are begging if not screaming, for a return to the office, to the subway, speeding tickets, inspection fees, parking violations, taxes, 45 minutes on the road, and crime.  They blame those who work outside their reach.

What I do know is that the last 36 months have not eroded but disintegrated almost every level of trust in once-thought-of timeless establishments and structures.  UFOs are real.

Heady stuff.

We've put together a piece about all this and more.  It's dry but includes a few tidbits of knowledge.

Enjoy.

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