Växẍ Säbbäth on Nostr: well.... there is a "split", these days there is a large portion of work that does ...

well.... there is a "split", these days

there is a large portion of work that does not in any way require being tied to a clock, and it's basically all laptop-class and knowledge work (not all of which is completely useless, but much of which is, at best, "ethereal" in nature)

Boomers have a real hard time wrapping their heads around this fact, and insist on "core hours" and "in-office"

the other type of work is the sort that is in fact tied to place and/or time (think retail, factory work, and so forth), for which it is critically important that the clock be observed (and, crucially, that all the time spent by the employee is compensated - another thing Boomers have a real hard time wrapping their heads around)

it's important to make a distinction between the two