• belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    They had plenty of data, they wanted people to be fearful and work like they were being watched, which is proven to be less good work.

    It was all about control.

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      1 year ago

      Bingo.

      They said – out loud, with words, as well as with actions – that they neither trust nor respect us. Many of them installed tracking software on remote hardware so that they could be alerted if employees took their hands off of their mouses long enough to even think, because if we’re not living in their own panopiticons, they think we’re all trying to fuck them over.

      Which, to me, is the admission that they’re actively and consciously trying to fuck us over.

      They’re not upset today that RTO hampered “productivity”, because they don’t care about that. They were, and are, willing to pay the price in order to physically lord themselves over people. What they regret is that people quit, and they’ve struggled to hire, and those that they have interviewed have made demands of them – like higher wages, or to be able to work remotely.

      They regret the feeling that they lost power when attempting to reassert it.