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Dr Robert N. Winter

Remember when meetings were held in rooms? Now, every desk is a conference pod. Every conversation is public. Every project update echoes across the office like a Gregorian chant of corporate chaos.

If you've ever found yourself trapped in a meeting while overhearing three others… this one's for you.

#WorkplaceCulture #Meetings #HybridWork #OpenPlanOffice #ZoomFatigue #CorporateLife #OrganisationalHumour #Leadership #ManagementTrends #Satire

robert.winter.ink/why-is-every

Dr Robert N. Winter · Why Is Everyone in My Meeting?
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DoomsdaysCW

#Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help

Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon #EconomicGrowth as an objective.

By Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis, Tim Jackson, Daniel W. O’Neill, Juliet B. Schor, Julia K. Steinberger, Peter A. Victor & Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, 12 December 2022

Excerpt: "The global economy is structured around growth — the idea that firms, industries and nations must increase production every year, regardless of whether it is needed. This dynamic is driving climate change and ecological breakdown. High-income economies, and the corporations and wealthy classes that dominate them, are mainly responsible for this problem and consume energy and materials at unsustainable rates.

"Yet many industrialized countries are now struggling to grow their economies, given economic convulsions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, resource scarcities and stagnating productivity improvements. Governments face a difficult situation. Their attempts to stimulate growth clash with objectives to improve human well-being and reduce environmental damage.

"GDP is getting a makeover — what it means for economies, health and the planet

"Researchers in ecological economics call for a different approach — degrowth. Wealthy economies should abandon growth of gross domestic product (#GDP) as a goal, scale down destructive and unnecessary forms of #production to reduce energy and material use, and focus economic activity around securing human needs and well-being. This approach, which has gained traction in recent years, can enable rapid #decarbonization and stop ecological breakdown while improving social outcomes. It frees up energy and materials for low- and middle-income countries in which growth might still be needed for development. Degrowth is a purposeful strategy to stabilize economies and achieve social and ecological goals, unlike recession, which is chaotic and socially destabilizing and occurs when growth-dependent economies fail to grow.

"Reports this year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (#IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on #Biodiversity and #Ecosystem Services (#IPBES) suggest that degrowth policies should be considered in the fight against #ClimateBreakdown and #biodiversity loss, respectively. Policies to support such a strategy include the following.

"Reduce less-necessary production. This means scaling down destructive sectors such as #FossilFuels, mass-produced meat and dairy, #FastFashion, #advertising, #cars and aviation, including #PrivateJets. At the same time, there is a need to end the #PlannedObsolescence of products, lengthen their lifespans and reduce the purchasing power of the #rich.

"Improve #PublicServices. It is necessary to ensure universal access to high-quality #HealthCare, #Education, #Housing, transportation, Internet, #RenewableEnergy and nutritious food. #UniversalPublicServices can deliver strong social outcomes without high levels of resource use.

"Introduce a green jobs guarantee. This would train and mobilize labour around urgent social and ecological objectives, such as installing renewables, insulating buildings, regenerating #ecosystems and improving social care. A programme of this type would end unemployment and ensure a just transition out of jobs for workers in declining industries or 'sunset sectors', such as those contingent on fossil fuels. It could be paired with a #UniversalIncome policy.

"Reduce working time. This could be achieved by lowering the retirement age, encouraging part-time working or adopting a four-day working week [and hybrid or remote work]. These measures would lower #CarbonEmissions and free people to engage in care and other welfare-improving activities. They would also stabilize employment as less-necessary production declines.

"Enable #sustainable development. This requires cancelling unfair and unpayable debts of low- and middle-income countries, curbing unequal exchange in international trade and creating conditions for productive capacity to be reoriented towards achieving social objectives.

"Some countries, regions and cities have already introduced elements of these policies. Many European nations guarantee free health care and education; Vienna and Singapore are renowned for high-quality public housing; and nearly 100 cities worldwide offer free public transport. Job guarantee schemes have been used by many nations in the past, and experiments with basic incomes and shorter working hours are under way in Finland, Sweden and New Zealand.

"But implementing a more comprehensive strategy of degrowth — in a safe and just way — faces five key research challenges, as we outline here."

Read more:
nature.com/articles/d41586-022

Archived version:
archive.ph/AtJ87
#FourDayWorkweek #RemoteWork #HybridWork #CircularEconomy #CapitalismKills #RightToRepair #ProtectMotherEarth #CorporateColonialism #BuyLess #BuyNothing #LibraryOfThings #SolarPunkSunday

www.nature.comDegrowth can work — here’s how science can helpWealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon economic growth as an objective.
Luis Suarez

Within my Top 3 quotes of the year (It's only February!), this one by @JohnAmaechi:

"Many people hate change because they see change as violence against the status quo and they react to change as if it is violence against them"

Watch this short video clip (Under 2 min.) 👉🏻 linkedin.com/posts/amaechi_lea for additional context as to where it comes from. Totally worth it!

Extremely helpful for next RTO Mandate vs. #RemoteWork / #HybridWork / #DistributedWork / #FlexibleWork conversation you may have👌🏻😎

Ruth Mottram

In February this year I participated (along with others from @OceanIceEU ) in a virtual workshop on #FreshwaterFluxes from #Antarctica and #Greenland. - it was a very good experience, now schmidt et al have published a summary of lessons learned in the process. It's worth considering next time you run an #onlineWorkshop or #HybridWork meeting

eos.org/science-updates/lesson

Eos · Lessons Learned from Running a Virtual Global WorkshopBy Gavin A. Schmidt
Emeritus Prof Christopher May

The hybrid work battleground continues to expand with Starling Bank being the latest to being having a tussle with staff over time spent in the office (and in Starling's case, the capacity to accommodate such a return).

Having established the value to workers (in certain sectors) of working from home, for managers who like the physical proximity of control in the office, this looks like a genie that may be very difficult to put back in the bottle.

#workers #hybridwork

theguardian.com/business/2024/

The Guardian · Starling Bank staff resign after new chief executive calls for more time in-officeBy Kalyeena Makortoff
Emeritus Prof Christopher May

When nearly half of graduates say they won't apply for jobs that do not include hybrid working, but many employers are seeking to force a 'return to the office' we can see the battle lines of a new conflict of work conditions & what employees want from their employer...

I've said this before; universities have spent decades negotiating these issues (not always very well) & as such more should examine their experience(s) in trying to make it work.

#workers #HybridWork

theguardian.com/business/2024/

The Guardian · In no great rush to get back to the office? UK home workers may not have a choiceBy Joanna Partridge
Luis Suarez

‘The study found that people who work remotely four or more days a week can reduce their carbon footprint by up to 54 percent’ 🤯👉🏻 scientificamerican.com/article

After reading that mind-blowing article, one can only wonder: why aren't we all, knowledge Web workers, doing that already? What's, or better said, who's stopping us? 🤔

Scientific AmericanWorking Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee's Carbon FootprintBy not going into the office, an at-home worker can cut greenhouse emissions in excess of 50 percent if they take energy-conservation steps
#RemoteWork#HybridWork#DistributedWork
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Luis Suarez

So, to that extent, here are some of the hashtags I have just started following: #RemoteWork #HybridWork and, specially, #DistributedWork 😍👍🏻

In the context of the latter, what else would folks out there recommend worth while following, or paying attention to?

[Was also thinking of adding Collaboration into the mix, but, my goodness, is that word overloaded with a bunch of non-sense! No, thanks! I'll pass 😤]

#PKMastery
Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social

#HybridWork has put office building owners in a bind and could pose a risk to banks. #Landlords are now confronting the fact that some of their office buildings have become obsolete, if not worthless #WFH

Hybrid work leaves offices empty and building owners reeling [Video] | 60 Minutes | Watch
cbsnews.com/news/empty-office-

CBS News · How empty office buildings are setting cities on a doom loop | 60 MinutesBy Jon Wertheim
Emeritus Prof Christopher May

As #Nationwide shifts from a 'work form anywhere' policy to a #hybridwork requirement (to include two days in the office), those #workers who took their employer at their word & shifted their lives to allow them to take advantage of the shift may be now regretting these changes.

Sure there is a transition period for three months, but it goes to show that when your employer offers you a change that seems to good to be true... it likely is (too good to be true).

theguardian.com/business/2023/

The Guardian · Nationwide rescinds ‘work anywhere’ policy and tells staff to come to office By Mark Sweney
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