Under the veil of the current COVID-19 pandemic and lingering restrictions and lockdown, corporations have been able to survive by converting operations to telecommuting and moving jobs online to huge benefit to the corporations and first reports seem to indicate that the workers see the conversion as advantageous as well. Is pandemic teleworking a corporate conspiracy?
While there was a growing interest in telecommuting across the nation, there was a growth-spurt which caught on in the shadow of 9/11 promoted by the government, and other industries took note of how important it might be to have staff that could work from home in the event of any disaster, terrorist threat, or pandemic.
Some organizations rejected the idea of enabling staff to telecommute or work from home out of fear. Fear that the working class could not be trusted. These employers and managers feel like they have to micromanage every step their employees take, suspicious that any employee will do as little as possible or nothing at all if they can get away with it and still receive pay.
Then comes the coronavirus outbreak and even the most resistant businesses are faced with hard and fast choices. Do you give up and close your business or quickly find a way to embrace telecommuting to survive? Do you shut down your factory or crowd manufacture?
And those who were resistant to moving jobs online because they could not adequately monitor their staff for fear of slacking off or having employees that would exploit the employer or corporation, new industries sprang to life to meet their concerns and leaving the staff asking the question, “Is your employer spying on you?” and indeed, they are spying on their employees to varying degrees thanks to remote monitoring technologies.
Other technologies experienced growth to meet the need of this expansive growth in telework across the United States, such as videoconferencing, Zoom, and VPN connectivity.
For the other employers and corporations who were already leaning in the direction of telecommuting, the transition was nearly seamless, and this forced experiment delivered staggering results for the corporate number crunchers. The pandemic work from home workforce increased productivity, at huge savings in overhead for the corporations.
It makes you wonder, is there some other purpose at work here, to force people to work from home?
This pandemic lockdown has benefited the ecology of our world amazingly. Mother Earth has not been in such good shape since the industrial revolution, she is healing from the damage we have caused her, right now.
Corporations are more profitable by not having to cater to on-site workforces.
There is a dark side to teleworking which is emerging, but new technologies are emerging to deal with any shortcomings that might be associated with the work-from-homers.
And factories which cannot embrace a crowd manufacturing model, some of them are investing in housing near the factory, hotels, or apartment buildings to accommodate manual laborers which have not been replaced by automation or mechanization.
Is Pandemic Teleworking a Corporate Conspiracy?
Following this pandemic, many corporations and employers will continue to operate remotely, and they are already releasing leases, selling off, or repurposing properties that were necessary to support on-site workers.
Who are the Top 10 beneficiaries of huge financial growth during the pandemic?
1. Amazon.com
2. eBay Inc.
3. Apple
4. Netflix
5. Alphabet
6. FedEx Corp.
7. United Parcel Service
8. Microsoft Corp.
9. Facebook
10. Zoom
What does the Top 10 COVID profiteers say about the current condition if we follow the money? Is there more going on here than meets the eye?
What does the future hold?
What will the workforce look like post-pandemic?
Are we turning into a society of caged slave labor for increased profit?
Or are we being prepared for new advances in societal living, like The Venus Project?