WFH

Working from home*

How many of you can still remember the COVID pandemic and the havoc it caused all around the world?

Fogy had already converted to WFH, so the final decision he made the week before the lockdown was academic. Only three of his clients were still in-person classes, and all but one were prepared to go fully online.

Those paying close attention watched keenly as everyone was forced into adapting to this new mode of work. I believe that all companies—bar none—were caught on the back foot. There was never any coherent sign of consistent decision-making at any level, so the experience became more torturous as a result.

As opportunities go, this was by far the best moment to break the hegemony of office rules and politics. It was the perfect time to restructure a management model defined decades ago and force-fed into MBA-trained minds, designed to replicate endlessly without question.

Grabbing the bull by the horns and deploying updated MBA frameworks to guide the transition should have been the obvious next step. A working group, assembled to build consensus on methods and modifications to maximise both transition and long-term internal cost efficiency, would have made perfect sense.

But once again, the humming and hawing of corporate heads—still fixated on profit and control—led only to the hodgepodge hybrid systems we see collapsing today.

Those of us who understood wept unconsolably as each milestone was bulldozed by the heavy machinery of corporate conservatism.

Support groups were goaded into producing ‘evidence’ that WFH was a non-starter, doomed to fail over time.

Too little effort went into making the process truly feasible. Too little was invested in re-educating the entire workforce—from the very top to the very bottom.

It almost appears we’ve become too weary, too wary of change. And of course—who wants to lose the intoxicating power of controlling a willing slave-force?

At my age, WFH is the only viable solution. I’m eternally grateful to all those who support me in this. In turn, I’ve invested a lot of time ensuring that the essence of what I do is not lost—but enhanced—through this method.

Someday in the future, I’m certain many will wish they’d taken the initiative to force the changes needed today, rather than wait for tomorrow. Because with the way the world is evolving, there may be no other choice.

An idea born too early, WFH was cut in the bud before it had a chance to blossom.

Viva la WFH

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