The reason work isn’t more flexible is because most managers are morons

I read this article on how Gen Z is going to save work over the weekend. Initially I was going to post something about how we need to stop ascribing every “Work shall be saved!” thing to Gen Z and the millennials, because they still broadly have no money, and you need money to change stuff, often. I backed off that stance and I want to discuss something else.

We’ve been talking about this whole remote work / flexible work / work from home / distributed work stuff for years. It always comes up in these bullshit business journalism articles, although it should come up in those articles. Giving people a chance to live their life, as opposed to simply being a slave to KPIs, seems like a pretty noble goal. We’ve ascribed the whole idea of “Work Freedom” as a decidely millennial thing, which is comical to me. Have you ever worked for a Boomer? Half the time on Fridays, they either don’t show up or work until 11am — and after that, they’re basically unreachable until Monday at 10am. This cycle also happens on random Wednesdays, Thursdays, and the like. In fact, right before I got shit-canned at a job a few years ago, I hadn’t seen or heard from my boss in six full days. He was Gen X tho.

OK, so that New York Times article I linked above has a lot of good points in it. Read it. There’s a VP of talent for…