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WHAT WE LOSE WHEN WORK GETS TOO CASUAL. The pandemic has eroded many of the formalities of white-collar work - changes that may benefit employers more than their employees.
LIKE SO MANY WITH A DESK JOB - I'VE spent the pandemic working from home - or more specifically, the bed in a bedroom of our microscopic Brooklyn apartment, which also houses a 6-year-old, a cat named James Bond and Roomba named DB5.
When I have Zooms for work, I try to put on something that passes for business casual and make sure my hair doesn't look like I've been spending my free time in the local wind tunnel. But strictly speaking this effort may be unnecessary because many of the formalities of white-collar work-place have eroded.
For so-called knowledge workers, the slide into casual work culture has been happening for decades, but Covid accelerated the trend by demonstrating that some office requirements are arbitrary and counterproductive, and make workers palpably miserable.
I don't miss long, pointless commutes that sap my energy before the work day even starts. And having more than once trekked through snow and ice in stilettos while carrying heavy pitch books, I think relaxed dress codes are undoing decades of Satan's work when it comes to acceptable work apparel -especially for women, who are often held to different and more rigorous standards.
[I'm not alone here; in a 2019 survey, 33 percent of workers said they'd forgo an extra $5,000 salary for a casual dress code.]
There are trade-offs, though. The loss of workplace formalities like fixed start and stop times, managerial hierarchies with clear pathways for advancement and professional norms that create boundaries between personal and professionally acceptable behaviour only hurt workers.
Though the pandemic-era transformation of white-collar work seems empowering at first, we should not be deceived : Many of these challenges mostly benefit employers.
On the surface, for example, remote work appears to give workers more freedom to do their work wherever and whenever they choose. But even though employees feel more productive when they work from home, we may just be working more, not more efficiently.
A 2020 Harvard Business School study of digital communications across almost 21,500 companies found that the average workday increased by 8.2 percent during the early weeks of pandemic lockdowns.
Employers have an incentive to embrace this round-the-clock culture, not because it allows workers to make more choices about when and how they get work done, but because it allows them to squeeze more work out of employees than they're willing to compensate for.
When employers can monopolize worker time and attention at any moment, it allows them to exploit people who can no longer check out when the workday is supposed to be over or they need to take time off. There is no work-life balance because the two become fully and seamlessly integrated. Your home is no longer the office; the office is now your home.
Another pandemic-accelerated trend is the flattening of hierarchies, where top-level employees manage their front lines directly, rather than through a pyramid of middle managers. This also seems like a benefit, because it means workers have to slog through less bureaucracy to get things done.
But it often means that employers can punt on providing workers with paths to advancement, especially if they're younger and less experienced. It's easier to assign junior executives more responsibilities ad hoc in a more informal environment and do it without formal promotions.
These workers have the least ability to push back when that happens because they have the least power in the organization.
The Covid lockdown has also contributed to the erosion of boundaries between co-workers because we're all invited into one another's homes, thanks to the videoconferencing. You'll finally get to see where Tyler from quality assurance lives - whether you want to or not.
There are some obvious areas where this has gone too far - no one should ever take a bath on a work Zoom - but most important, it can easily result in a failure to treat other people professionally as a matter of course.
This is most likely to affect people at the bottom of the workplace hierarchy, who are at greater risk of becoming targets of harassment and inappropriate behaviour.
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