Someone Explains Why Returning To Office Culture Is A Tool To Control Us In This Viral Post

In a 2020 Pew Research Center report from the height of the pandemic, most workers said their job responsibilities can mainly be done from home, but before the pandemic, they had rarely or never teleworked prior to 2020. At the time of the survey, 71% of them were doing their job from home all or most of the time. As of today, many companies have already implemented long-term remote work as a permanent model of their workforce.

Now, with the vaccines, our lives are returning to normal, they say. ‘Returning to the office’ is one such ‘normalcy’ from the pre-covid world that many employees are today expected to do, although it has become clear that most of our jobs can be done in PJs (just as effectively, if not more). So what’s up with it? Well, this post shared on Tumblr has some illuminating answers.

The author not only debunks the office workplace culture and the flaws underneath it, it shows how our employers have used the model to control us. And today, now that the old system is crumbling, the future of work seems to be in people’s hands.

In this illuminating post, the author used a metaphor of the panopticon to show how the traditional work from the office model is used as a power tool to control its employees

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And here’s how the author explained their theory

The author claims the pandemic has shuffled the cards for big bosses who were forced to implement radical changes

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And here is the solution to this whole situation, according to the author of the post

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Many people showed their support for the arguments listed above

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