Post by account_disabled on Jan 2, 2024 22:40:36 GMT -5
Delivered to your inbox every month. What is your email? Sign Up Privacy Policy We also acknowledge that working from home is not an option for many people because the nature of their jobs requires them to be physically present. Those who educate our children and care for our elders do so largely in person. It’s no exaggeration to say that those delivering packages and picking up trash are always on site. Most workers in industries suDh as transportation and logistics, manufacturing and event planning, hospitality and food services are likely thinking more about when they can return to work than where the work will be performed. Current discussions about returning to work in the coming months and beyond the crisis are largely focused on workers who do or do not need to be in centralized workplaces, and what that might look like there.
Geographic and industry differences present unique challenges on what elements will be included in these workspaces—whether on-site, in a warehouse, on an office campus, or in a terminal. The workplace I'm an office completely separate from the home and built specifically to get Job Function Email List work done. I think that in order to better understand the current moment, we first need to trace how we got here. While we cannot predict the future, we can certainly imagine possible futures from a more informed present. Of course, humans have been working for as long as they have existed.
We need food and shelter for collective survival, so we obtain these necessities through hunting and gathering. We innovated systems of labor exchange, some manual, some in what we eventually called knowledge work and goods based on trade and barter. Some forms of labor are physical, while others are not. As modern work practices evolved, those who held clerical or administrative positions moved into what we now broadly call offices, while others worked by hand on farms and in factories. I've worked in both types of environments and, along the way, gained a fair amount of local understanding of how things get done here.
Geographic and industry differences present unique challenges on what elements will be included in these workspaces—whether on-site, in a warehouse, on an office campus, or in a terminal. The workplace I'm an office completely separate from the home and built specifically to get Job Function Email List work done. I think that in order to better understand the current moment, we first need to trace how we got here. While we cannot predict the future, we can certainly imagine possible futures from a more informed present. Of course, humans have been working for as long as they have existed.
We need food and shelter for collective survival, so we obtain these necessities through hunting and gathering. We innovated systems of labor exchange, some manual, some in what we eventually called knowledge work and goods based on trade and barter. Some forms of labor are physical, while others are not. As modern work practices evolved, those who held clerical or administrative positions moved into what we now broadly call offices, while others worked by hand on farms and in factories. I've worked in both types of environments and, along the way, gained a fair amount of local understanding of how things get done here.