There are ways the #executive class could make returning to the #office more attractive, of course—say by going back to the concept of an office, where everyone who works there has a room assigned only to them, with at least a desk, a chair, and a door they can close when they really need to concentrate. But that might give the #peasants ideas above their station, so don’t hold your breath.
Really this may the one good thing to come out of #covid. The traditional office structure was already pretty rickety before the #pandemic: the #infrastructure was in place for half or more of “office” work to be done at home. I’ve been doing exactly that for coming up on four years now (!) and although I do sometimes miss the camaraderie of the #lab, for the most part I’m quite happy with the situation. I won’t be at all sorry if the nineteenth crow turns out to be the coup de grace.
The new #nobility is going to have to adapt, and just like the old nobility, they don’t handle that well. It’s not about #money, and it never has been. It’s about #power, and one way to make your power over your fellow human beings explicit is forcing them to be somewhere they don’t want to be for most of their adult lives. #Duke #CEO and #Baron #MBA are quite reluctant to give that up. Things are going to be messy for a while.
