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Opponents of capitalism might object to this (see below) as a way of indoctrinating youth into the evils of capitalism at an early age. Others may see this as a way to promote early independence from large scale business enterprises. Your thoughts?

New Mighty E-Commerce Where Kids Operate Their Own Store Fronts
by Connio Loizos
July 2, 2021
(TechCrunch) Until children reach a certain age, enrichment programs are somewhat limited to school, sports, and camps, while money-making opportunities are largely non-existent.

Now, a year-old, L.A.-based startup called Mighty, a kind of Shopify that invites younger kids to open a store online, aims to partly fill the void. In fact, Mighty — led by founders Ben Goldhirsh, who previously founded GOOD magazine, and Dana Mauriello, who spent nearly five years with Etsy and was most recently an advisor to Sidewalk Labs — hopes to woo families with the pitch that it operates at the center of fintech, ed tech, and entertainment.

As often happens, the concept derived from the founders’ own experience. In this case, Goldhirsh, who has been living in Costa Rica, began worrying about his two daughters, who attend a small, six-person school. Because he feared they might fall behind their stateside peers, he began tutoring them when they arrived home, using Khan Academy among other software platforms. Yet the girls’ reaction wasn’t exactly positive.

“They were like, “F*ck you, dad. We just finished school and now you’re going to make us do more school?'”

Unsure of what to do, he encouraged them to sell the bracelets they’d been making online, figuring it would teach them needed math skills, as well as teach them about startup capital, business plans (he made them write one), and marketing. It worked, he says, and as he told friends about this successful “project-based learning effort,” they began to ask if he could help their kids get up and running.
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caltrek wrote: Sat Jul 03, 2021 7:37 pm Opponents of capitalism might object to this (see below) as a way of indoctrinating youth into the evils of capitalism at an early age. Others may see this as a way to promote early independence from large scale business enterprises. Your thoughts?

New Mighty E-Commerce Where Kids Operate Their Own Store Fronts
by Connio Loizos
July 2, 2021
(TechCrunch) Until children reach a certain age, enrichment programs are somewhat limited to school, sports, and camps, while money-making opportunities are largely non-existent.

Now, a year-old, L.A.-based startup called Mighty, a kind of Shopify that invites younger kids to open a store online, aims to partly fill the void.
meh, I knew something like that was coming. I've said to family for years that too much our schooling systems are training employees in a system that is increasingly headed in a direction where companies can be run with enough automation and outsourcing that they can run a global business with a handful of people. so many imagine this means a horrible wasteland of no work, but fail to realize that anyone can own and run a company, and it can have a global reach without having to hire any employees or own a building. we should be training kids for a future of starting a business.

now that's not a glossy bright problem free direction by any stretch of the imagination. we're going to have to readjust how our economies, political systems and general life works for that to work. But we'd have to make equally big changes to get the current system to last a few years more.
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For Women, Remote Work is a Blessing and a Curse
by Rani Molla
July 13, 2021

https://www.vox.com/recode/22568635/wom ... -work-home

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(Vox) Women may be more likely to want to work from home than men. They’ve also had a harder time doing so, reporting higher rates of stress, depression, and sheer hours worked — especially if they have kids. This paradox is a result of women trying to do the best thing for their careers while also navigating an unfair role in society and at home. In other words, women need more flexible work arrangements, because women have more to do.

While the ability to work from home has been a godsend for working parents who were able to keep their children and jobs safe during the pandemic, it’s also exacerbated deeply ingrained gender inequality. Too often a crying toddler makes a cameo on a mother’s Zoom call and not a father’s. In a spare moment, women turn over the laundry while men don’t. Day-to-day scheduling, schooling, as well as decisions about their family’s health amid a global health crisis disproportionately fall to women.

And that’s only talking about women fortunate enough to be able to work from home — typically knowledge workers, whose relatively high-paying jobs have also afforded them a measure of physical safety. For many women, working from home isn’t an option at all. Women who have to work outside the home and care for children, especially without a partner at home, have to face a whole different set of challenging, and dangerous, circumstances.

Even before the pandemic, women were doing what sociologists describe as the “second shift,” where they complete an inordinate amount of household and caregiving chores after they’ve finished their paid labor. The pandemic has made things even worse, since much of the infrastructure that helps alleviate those tasks — schools, day care, elder care, cleaning services — has been off-limits. While women and men alike have worked from home, employed women are three times more likely than men to be their children’s main caregiver during this period. Additionally, telecommuting moms significantly increased the amount of housework they did while working from home (men didn’t).
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Survey Says...
by Rani Molla
July 17, 2021

https://www.vox.com/recode/22576811/rem ... s-approval

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(Vox) Most Americans approve of letting people work from home.

More than half of Americans worked from home earlier in the pandemic. And it went surprisingly well, with workers, their managers, and objective studies reporting that employees maintained or increased their levels of productivity.

So it makes sense that over the course of the pandemic, employees’ desire to continue working from home increased, and so did employers’ willingness to let them. But there’s still a gap between what employees want and what employers say they’re going to do, according to data from a study authored in part by Stanford professor Nicholas Bloom. Employees would like to work from home about half the time, while employers plan to let them do so about one day a week.

As the more acute effects of the pandemic are subsiding and the number of people who work remotely is declining, numerous surveys of employers — as well as a giant increase in the number of remote job listings — suggest that many Americans will continue to work from home at least some of the time even when the pandemic ends. What’s less clear is how often that will be.

Overall, though, working from home is a valuable perk, with the average employee saying it’s worth about 7 percent of their salary, according to Bloom’s study. It’s not worth much more than that. Our survey, which asked whether people would prefer the ability to work from home or to receive a 10 percent pay raise, found that two-thirds of people would go for the raise.
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The article below reminds me of a joke I read earlier in the year. A house maid calls from home and indicates that she is only interested in working remotely. There are just some types of work that are site specific. As the article below points out, this raise issues of equity. Perhaps, another reason why blue collar workers should be paid relatively more for their efforts.

Companies That Make People Return to the Office Will Lose Employees
by Rani Molla
July 21, 2021

https://www.vox.com/recode/22583285/com ... ey-harvard

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(Vox) After a year-and-a-half hiatus, many offices will open back up in September. Most companies are asking that employees return on a hybrid basis, meaning they come into the office at least some of the time. But what exactly that will look like is uncertain.

What is certain is that more people will work from home than ever before, and this shift has the potential to disrupt everything from physical office space to the way people feel about work. And as US companies face a hiring crisis, companies that don’t offer remote work could find themselves at a significant disadvantage when it comes to recruiting new talent.

Recode talked with Tsedal Neeley, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and the author of Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere, about the many issues that are coming up as the nature of work changes.

The interview has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. (See article linked above quote box for interview).
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