Wow. Beanbags provided is amazing…more amazing might be the sense of trust and safety that allows one to nap in public! I once napped on the beach..not by the sand bank like most folk…but on that strip by the ocean where everyone walks. The beach feels safe for that. I woke up and the tide was a foot away from my toes!
While cultures all over the world, including high tech industrial countries, America still refuses to take a break from the high tension work ethic that managers (and CEOs undoubtedly) force their subordinates to practice. They can't bear the thought of employees working from home. My goodness, they might spent a moment or two playing with or attending to their children. We must all return to the stifling atmosphere of the high-rise downtown office building, looking busy even though we finished our work and solve the problems an hour ago. Horrors! There's even a Gen-Z ethic being fostered to do only the tasks the job description calls for and nothing more. None of this extra "duties as assigned" that will never raise a positive response from "the boss" if we dutifully complete those tasks ... with a smile of course. And if we dare slog back to the office a few minutes late from lunch (or even take a lunch outside the office) we will definitely hear about how we cheated the company out of valuable time. Time is money, you know. Oh, and as for that family we want to have a life with ... the corporation is our family now. There's nobody else in your life that is even significant.
Wow. Beanbags provided is amazing…more amazing might be the sense of trust and safety that allows one to nap in public! I once napped on the beach..not by the sand bank like most folk…but on that strip by the ocean where everyone walks. The beach feels safe for that. I woke up and the tide was a foot away from my toes!
While cultures all over the world, including high tech industrial countries, America still refuses to take a break from the high tension work ethic that managers (and CEOs undoubtedly) force their subordinates to practice. They can't bear the thought of employees working from home. My goodness, they might spent a moment or two playing with or attending to their children. We must all return to the stifling atmosphere of the high-rise downtown office building, looking busy even though we finished our work and solve the problems an hour ago. Horrors! There's even a Gen-Z ethic being fostered to do only the tasks the job description calls for and nothing more. None of this extra "duties as assigned" that will never raise a positive response from "the boss" if we dutifully complete those tasks ... with a smile of course. And if we dare slog back to the office a few minutes late from lunch (or even take a lunch outside the office) we will definitely hear about how we cheated the company out of valuable time. Time is money, you know. Oh, and as for that family we want to have a life with ... the corporation is our family now. There's nobody else in your life that is even significant.