Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Day Has Come: Twitter Layoffs Begin" video.
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The way the bureaucracy works, every manager wants more staff. One go-getter in mid-management can destroy your efficiency, by going the extra mile on something, making themselves a hero for all the marvelous things they're doing (also called 'meddling.'), and gee, they could do so much MORE if they had another assistant. They get a raise for going above and beyond. Then they get a raise for managing a bigger staff. We have these 'employees of the year' in a lot of places, especially in government.
I think remote work is fine, if you have the right people doing it, and you are good at measuring productivity. It saves a lot of energy and time. A lot of urban pathologies we see could be mitigated if there weren't millions of people commuting long distances, because of the cost of housing and/or just preferring to not live in the heart of the city. And some workers thrive working remotely. The main issue I see is lack of training and oversight. It's too new. I saw it during COVID where I work. As someone who already did a lot of their remote work, the crash course in remote work that everybody else at work took was NOT conducive to the best results. But it was more because they expected everyone to change overnight, instead of building the proper infrastructure and giving employees time to learn the new way, or opt out if they wanted to stick with the old way.
This is especially true in the public schools, where teachers just were not trained, properly, and neither were students. Throw in the fact that millions of parents got to see what losers some of the teachers were, and remote learning got a huge black eye, and CONSERVATIVES wanted to go back to the same crappy in-person learning. I guess if they can't see how bad the teachers are, things will be better... We always take the wrong lesson from our mistakes.
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