It was probably too optimistic to expect the traditional job interview to survive the onslaught on traditional working cultures. The days when you might buy a new suit,polish your shoes,and arrive 20 minutes early,all to make sure you made the right first impression on a prospective employer are now consigned to the past.
And yet,why would we be surprised by that any more? When the pandemic struck,and we were all locked up at home for several months,many employers reckoned working from home – or lounging around in your PJs to give it its technical term – was a short-term solution.
Sure,we might learn a few lessons in flexible working,while using office space more efficiently,but then everything would get back more or less to normal. Instead,it turns out that we allowed habits to form that are now out of control.
Working from home has been transformed from an occasional privilege to something that can’t even be questioned. Aided and abetted by over-powerful,woke human resources departments,it is considered an absolute right.
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Any CEO with the temerity to suggest it might be good for people to pop into the office a bit more often can expect to be treated as the reincarnation of Ebenezer Scrooge. It doesn’t stop there. “Working from anywhere” presumably means that you can be sunning yourself on a beach somewhere while still officially “working”.
The “right to switch off” means that your boss can’t contact you about anything outside of working hours. But what if the entire company is about to crash?