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Re: MN: Local AT&T workers fight against return to office plan [telecom]

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On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 05:46:27PM +0200, Marco Moock wrote:
> Am Thu, 25 Aug 2022 21:11:21 +0000
> schrieb Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>:
> 
> > Local AT&T workers are calling on the company to allow for a permanent
> > work from home option for employees.
> 
> I hope they will reach that goal.

I hope so too, but I doubt it, at least not anytime soon.

After swimming in the belly of that beast for 25 years, I realized
that most of the "First Line" supervisors at Mother Bell's orphaned
children practice what I call "Warm Body Management" - if their
subordinates are in their assigned seats and their bodies are still
warm, most Supervisors assume that they are productive.

On the other hand, there are a variety of tools available to managers
whom really want to manage distributed teams competently: tools to
report on keyboard activity, websites visited, emails sent and
received, etc. Those tools can be misused, of course, especially when
untrained supervisors are called to interpret the reports they will
receive from them, without experience in dealing with reporting people
whom will be trying to fend off their childrens' demands for
attention, their husbands/wives asking about their plans for dinner,
etc., etc.

It's going to take several years before the managerial work force is
prepared for the challenge, and it's likely there will be a lot of old
buildings converted to "cubicle farms" so that work-at-home employees
get the option of working-anywhere-but-home.  In the meantime, don't
be surprised if the various ILECs demand that their "distributed team"
employees attach thermometers to their computers, so as to assure that
the bodiess are still warm.

Bill

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MN: Local AT&T workers fight against return to office plan [telecom] Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> - 2022-08-25 21:11 +0000
  Re: MN: Local AT&T workers fight against return to office plan [telecom] "Marco Moock" <mo01@remove-this.posteo.de> - 2022-08-26 17:46 +0200
    Re: MN: Local AT&T workers fight against return to office plan [telecom] Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> - 2022-08-26 17:55 +0000

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