Where Are We Going - Home?

I just finished a Business Insider article on the impact of Covid on working at home. One takeaway, most larger companies, especially big tech companies, benefited greatly from it. Workers are more productive, they take less time off, and it saves the company money.

Before Covid the at-home work force was about 8%. The author predicts it will stabilize now at about triple that, say 22% or so, then continue to rise.

The biggest consequence of this according to the article, and not surprising given the wokeness of the Stanford based article, was that working moms would be more likely to want to work at home than men, but we couldn’t let this happen less disparities arise from the men who are more likely to go to the office and network. Their solution, we mandate equality and the amount of time worked from home. More and more control over people’s lives.

What the article didn’t address, and what is more interesting to me, is how this foreshadows where we are going as a society. Are we really going home? Or are we becoming more isolated and easier to control? Slowly, we are being turned into fuel for the Matrix, in our case, the Matrix of politicians and big business. We are their fuel, and their control over our lives is the matrix. Isolation makes us much easier to divide, conquer, and feed off of.