Office workers are expected to work from home if possible. Well that works fine… of course I don’t have the best equipment here at home, but since I got an old television from the attic, I have a better screen than at work … until my laptop breaks, of course … I noticed that the Microsoft teams and skype apps just fit at my hard disk but had to clean up a lot to have enough disk space for all my other hobbies… ..
Communication with colleagues is going well because the people you work with know where to find you. However, that will not apply to everyone. With certain people and processes where contact was also difficult in the old pre corona situation, this has become more difficult. … .And of course… bump into someone by chance is not possible. … so expanding work contacts with new people is more difficult .. Fortunately, Corona is almost defeated, right? If not, more social moments must be built into working life, otherwise the social organization will fall apart.
Working at home takes some time to getting used to, a few weeks ago you only saw your wife full-time during the holidays and right now you see each other almost every day … we get used to it… In the beginning we sat at 1 table but that does not work, we each have another type of job. Anyway, after a while you will organize your environment in such a way that you can sit there for 8 hours a day. How boring it sometimes can be, even for a computer man like me…
However, you feel less involved in society, no hobbies possible, rules regarding the distance when you walk outside … no longer going live tot your parents … although I will try this next week anyway.
Working from home offers the solution to the environmental problems. If we want to maintain this in society after Corona, it must be ensured that productivity remains the same in any case. And the question is also what should happen to those empty office buildings? All our pension money is in those buildings … Should they be filled with economic refugees as soon as the Corona virus strikes in the developing world? Or is this still a typical disease of (semi) western consumer countries? I don’t see a major pandemic in Africa yet.
However, dependence on large American companies is increasing. Do we want that? As technology becomes more and more important for the private sphere, these companies that fall under the American Patriot act become more powerful because a lot of economic information also leaks out, which provides a competitive advantage for the organisation or country who has all the data.
But maybe it is just the way it is.