Is language the key to resolving the WFH v back-to-the-office culture wars? | Emma Beddington
Those who work from home and their office-based colleagues need to understand each other better – and that starts with language. Here’s my new corporate glossary
I note, wearily, that the work culture wars grind on. We are in the midst of yet another push to get staff back in to the office, with Amazon, Morgan Stanley and Asda all desperately trying to stuff the human genie back into its cubicle bottle. Staff at the Office for National Statistics and the Land Registry, among others, have voted to strike to preserve their right to work from home (WFH). Stuart Rose, former CEO of M&S and until November executive chair of Asda, told Panorama that home work isn’t “proper work” and the Mail quotes a “Gen Z CEO” saying he is wrong. Can’t we all just get along?
One possible explanation for the continued conflict is that we have become strangers to each other. Absence made the heart grow more suspicious: our office-based overlords think we WFHers have become an army of side-hustling slackers. We, meanwhile, know them only by their diktats: to us they are as blankly remote and unrelatable as extras in Severance.
Emma Beddington is a Guardian columnist
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