REFRAMING 1) Very few people in any company ‘matter’ so to speak – they just nee

REFRAMING
1) Very few people in any company ‘matter’ so to speak – they just need to do their jobs well enough not to ‘badly matter’.
2) Most of those jobs that are clerical (Don’t require physical activity) can be operated remotely.
3) Many Many clerical jobs can be replaced by automation cheaply – more cheaply than physical jobs that require capital equipment investment.
4) There is a culture-of-thought-leadership, culture-of-information, and culture-of-loyalty aspect to the people who DO matter in a company. It’s absolutely true that management teams do the most valuable work in after-work chats, over dinner, or at breakfast in the morning.
5) That said we should expect the emergence of home-clerical, on site-mechanical, on-site and mobile transportation and delivery to reduce pressure on office space just as we have seen technology gut retail space.
6) We should expect not only re-shoring of production due to the decline of american financed globalization. But we should expect policy that re-shores nearly all service and clerical work for the same reason: simple economics of needing the jobs.

(I designed software a long time ago, in the 80s that was very good at measuring productivity that preveiously required middle management – today’s software is much better than in the past, and will only get better. The problem is … most of us aren’t very productive. 😉 The result might (pray it will) end up with shorter work days or weeks. Because most of us rae good for 4 to 6 hours a day at most. There are some of us who are workaholics that can work three times that easily, and happily. But it’s not ‘normal’ human behavior. And it’s bad for family formation.)

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