The Holy Water Cooler
It will be of absolutely no surprise to anyone that there is a resistance to the “RETURN TO OFFICE” mantra being released from the mouths many CEOs across the world like so much raw sewage into our waterways. The pandemic changed the relationship people have with their jobs. The power CEOs had over their employees melted away like their promises of pay increases1. If people did not realise how much time they were wasting on commuting2 to and from an office, they surely did now. I was working as a software developer at a medium sized firm from 2017 to 2022 and, like most jobs back then, it was an office job. All my jobs had been office jobs. This had never made sense to me. Software development is one of the prime examples of a role that can be done from home, and in my opinion, suffers for being in the offce full-time. ...