I heard a discussion regarding working from home. Companies are supposedly finding greater productivity form employees working in their own homes. Those engaged with the subject noted that Silicon Valley's real estate prices are extremely high. If folks can clock in from home, perhaps employees will choose to live where more of their salary goes in their pockets and less goes to housing and cost of living.
Well I thought a bit further. Companies could also save on tolerance training. Employees from various backgrounds wouldn't have to intermingle. They wouldn't overhear each other's conversation in the break room. I wonder if the workplace, for many, isn't the last avenue where one has to encounter someone who sees life from a very different perspective. Eliminating mixing eliminates the need for tolerance.
Or does work from home expand the need for tolerance training? Is your den, which is doubling as your office work property or private? If you submit work assignments on your home computer, can you write inflammatory posts on the same screen? Maybe, workers will be required to roll through Computer-Based Learning on these subjects at home. What happens to a society that has to learn how to get along with others through a slideshow?
I don't know.
