[HN Gopher] Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work
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Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work
Author : tate
Score : 25 points
Date : 2021-05-14 19:27 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| Pet_Ant wrote:
| I don't know. I started a new job right before Covid. I have
| never met any of my remaining coworkers (my onboarders both
| left). I don't care about them. I'm definitely less willing to do
| something extra to help them out like take a ticket so they
| aren't stressing their anniversary etc. I feel like remote work
| brings out the psychopathy in (some?) of us because they aren't
| real people in any tangible sense.
| [deleted]
| kordlessagain wrote:
| I'm going to waste my time writing an opinion article that makes
| a polarized claim about something I know or care nothing about.
|
| "Hacker" is being left out of news!
| 3327 wrote:
| I was about to say. Click bait title and some nonsense claim
| with nothing concrete to back it.
|
| I believe back in the day the term would be "hog wash"
| AtlasBarfed wrote:
| Can anyone enumerate "good CEO" examples? Specific CEOs of
| specific companies.
|
| I'd argue what will get it to happen is upping the workplace
| quality.
|
| The push to get people back to work is inevitable. Of course they
| could do what economics says to do: provide incentives to enhance
| the utility to the worker of going into work vs staying home.
|
| Food. Workout. Food. Commuter perks (free bus card, free
| bikeshare, free scootershare). Food. CHILDCARE (a whole new can
| of beans, who with kids does not recognize the paramount need for
| nationalized child care now).
|
| Did I mention food?
| tediousdemise wrote:
| Isn't public schooling sufficient childcare? Not too sure how I
| feel about my tax dollars going toward superfluous childcare
| for other people's kids. Especially when I've made the
| conscious decision to not have a child myself due to the
| environmental impact.
|
| Echo everything else you said, though.
| yummypaint wrote:
| I don't have kids either and i want my tax money to pay for
| pre-k and quality childcare for other people's kids. They are
| children now but they will be our future colleagues,
| caretakers, and fellow citizens. We all have a personal stake
| in the fate of the next generation.
| tediousdemise wrote:
| I think the onus of childcare is on the parents, not
| society. If one is relying on family, friends, and society
| at large to raise their kids, I don't think they should
| have had them in the first place.
| acuozzo wrote:
| I have two young boys. The older one is autistic. I earn
| a decent amount per year working as a computer programmer
| just as I did when they were born.
|
| If I were to survive a stroke tomorrow, would you tell me
| that I shouldn't have had them in the first place since
| I'd require all kinds of assistance to care for them?
|
| Would you support legislation to ensure that I don't get
| help?
| tediousdemise wrote:
| This is an exceptional edge case and I absolutely think
| that additional assistance would be in order. But
| generally, emergency funds, health insurance, disability
| assistance, and welfare are all able to alleviate this
| type of situation.
|
| If you intentionally have kids, you should have had an
| emergency fund stockpiled long before conception.
| acuozzo wrote:
| > This is an exceptional edge case
|
| It is, but it wouldn't be challenging to construct far
| less exceptional cases to consider.
|
| * workers of dangerous jobs e.g. oil rigs and mining
|
| * workers in seemingly-stable jobs that are suddenly
| outsourced e.g. GMC factory workers in Flint, MI
|
| * workers in industries on the verge of collapse e.g.
| milkmen and telephone switchboard operators
|
| * lost income after the birth of a disabled child forcing
| one parent to stay home full-time
|
| > If you intentionally have kids, you should have had an
| emergency fund stockpiled long before conception.
|
| By shifting 100% of the responsibility to the parents,
| you're ignoring the issue of far greater importance: the
| wellbeing of the children.
|
| Telling parents that they should have planned better and
| saved more does nothing for their children, but those
| children WILL have an impact on the future society you
| inhabit.
| yummypaint wrote:
| It's the responsibility of every driver to yield to
| pedestrians. That doesn't mean we should all just walk
| into the street without looking.
| burtmurphy1 wrote:
| Is your sole reasoning for not having kids because of the
| environmental impact or is there another reason?
|
| If everyone that cared for the environment took this stance -
| the only people alive in 100 years would be those that care
| nothing for the environment.
| tediousdemise wrote:
| Environmental impact is probably the biggest factor. I also
| just don't have any motivation or desire to have children.
|
| Parenting is a lifelong commitment and requires
| responsibilities beyond that which I am willing to commit.
| I think bringing new carbon generators, who are capable of
| profound suffering, into the world would be doing a
| disservice to the environment, everyone around me, myself,
| and most importantly the child.
| romski wrote:
| User name checks out
| slownews45 wrote:
| God - what a random diatribe backed with no data.
|
| If we are doing anecdotes
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| The staff on-site or asking to come back on-site at my job are
| all the go-getters. Seriously. It's the folks you least care
| about coming onsite because they are on all the time at home too,
| work weekends etc.
|
| The staff you have to follow-up on to know what is going on -
| radio silence and when there is talk of coming back to the office
| have extreme concerns over COVID (even though they take time to
| travel during the pandemic and office will be 100% vaccinated
| only in an area with < 1.5% positive test rates and < 3 per 100K
| infection rates).
|
| We've seen a pretty big split like this in the schools as well. A
| bunch of more energetic seeming charter and other schools - full
| bore for months with lots of creative solutions. The public
| schools - closed and remote only education. I guess those heads
| of school that are avoiding remote are "bad" - total BS.
|
| Let's stop with these garbage headlines and articles unless
| someone has some real data.
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