Interesting article on surveillance tech in the workplace. The major part of the problem with this is right there near the beginning - "initiatives are hard to measure or hard to do when we don’t know what people are doing at home". Well, what a surprise - "we don't know what people are doing". Management and understanding real productivity metrics is the issue, not bums-in-seats metrics.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/02/the-surveillance-tech-waiting-for-workers-as-they-return-to-the-office/

#remote #remotework #backtotheoffice #productivity #doge #orwellian

Banking numeracy test. Begin when instructed to do so. Do not write on both sides of the paper at the same time.

Question 1: You have 3,300 employees. You require that all of them spend at least half of the week in the office. You have 900 desks for them to work at. Demonstrate that 3,000 ÷ 2 < 900. Show your working out.

Extra marks will be rewarded for the observation that some part of the UK's banking industry goes tits up once a generation.

#BackToTheOffice

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/19/starling-bank-staff-resign-after-new-chief-executive-calls-for-more-time-in-office

ATTENTION
NON-UNIONIZED WORKERS
IN #TECH
doesn't matter what an #Amazon exec says: you keep on working in your job at home until they fire you.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/amazon-exec-tells-employees-to-work-elsewhere-if-they-dislike-rto-policy/

and lawyer the fuck up.

and organize with other Amazon workers.

the bottom line, they want you to quit because most states won't pay #unemployment #benefits if you were coerced into quitting. NY is one of the few exceptions.

h/t
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/113330830125763290

#labor #BackToTheOffice

Six Experts on What We’ve Learned about Returning to the Office

Spoiler alert: working remotely, or at least hybrid, and always flexibly wins!

https://buff.ly/3TjjQrr

#backtotheoffice #returntotheoffice #felxibleworking #remotework