On working from home & why Musk is wrong
I work mainly from home and have done for some years. The pandemic underlined the point but even as it eases I find the number of in person events in my (work) diary to be limited.
I have nothing at all against offices. I worked mainly in offices since the late 1970s.
I still have a large one in the City of London. The City is an interesting place but in the context of 2022, why go there to look at a laptop screen and chat to the pigeons?
Of course there are reasons for being in an office. Collaborative working (assuming your collaborators are there) and simply meeting other people. Home working can be isolating. Further as a union activist I like the idea of meeting people in person in offices and talking to them about the class struggle (however refracted).
Elon Musk’s diktat that all twitter employees must forthwith be in an office for at least 40 hours a week, whether there is a useful reason for this or not, reminds that being in a trade union is worthwhile. Such diktats can be faced down by collective organisation and more reasonable approaches developed, flexibility being the key…
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