How anonymous is a name?
Joanna York discusses the inequalities of post-pandemic workplace presence: executive managers who require the hoi polloi to drag their sorry arses back into the office, while themselves maintaining remote working practices.
After months of working from home during the worst of the pandemic, a few months ago Sneha, who works in promotions in the UK, was asked to come back into the office. She and her colleagues have since been going in a few times each week – but her bosses have not. “They come in once every few weeks,” says Sneha, whose surname is being withheld for job-security concerns. “Not often.”
Joanna York, The double standard of the return-to-office, BBC Worklife
Assuming that Sneha is her real name, I wonder how many Snehas work in promotions in the UK? And, of those, how many sit in
, while their bosses a small, dark room
in a co-working spacehave claimed a lack of space is keeping them home
? Not very many, I imagine. (thinking)