Red flag!

The Future of Remote Work and the Flipped Workplace.

The most successful companies limit chit-chat emails and text messages. No, "hey, what's ups" in their communication structure.

While this article contains some sections I really like and appreciate (e.g. about the Gitlab handbook, or uninstalling Zoom) the quote above is the red flag for what utter bullcrap will follow. I cannot wrap my head around how someone is able to follow this train of thought during a pandemic crisis with all the lock-down and physical distancing yadda yadda.

every job is an IT job and every company is an IT company

…is the saying the author is so fond of he does not hesitate to let us know. So I guess I will be delighted how that turns out for the doctors and nurses, the relief units and not at last the grocery salespersons. Or I rather will not.

Because this is exactly the same kind of neoliberal reorganisational tech newspeak of the last 50 years that already gave us understaffed hospitals financially starved to death we have to cope with now.

Maybe it is just the fear of not being structurally relevant enough for a society to avoid to mention the elephant in the room in such an audacious and deliberate manner. However, it makes the whole article flawed in great profusion. Bummer.