The CEO who complained in the New York Times about remote work appears to live 10 minutes from his office.
, in a piece called “Is Working From Home Really Working?,” that the increasing prevalence of remote work reflects a change not just in technological capacity and social circumstances but in the United States’ entire attitude toward labor—a change that is “not for the better,” he says, and that “threatens to do long-lasting damage to economic growth and prosperity.”
I read Rattner’s piece on my phone while walking from my car to my son’s 2:30 p.m. elementary school pickup. It was good for a chuckle because I was not in an office, but I was definitely working. If Ibeen working, I would have been reading an article about sports, or perhaps strolling through the whispering spring breezes without reading an article at all, rather than learning that the
—and “several dozen” other senior executives to whom he says he’s spoken about the subject—suspect I am not working hard enough.It is true that I prefer to work from “home,” as the case may be, although home is sometimes a coffee shop where I type while my son plays games on my phone—he has to read for 30 minutes first; we’re an industrious family!—or the front seat of our car, where I connect my laptop to my iPhone hotspot while parked outside a school or day care center.
But I don’t think Rattner and the other executives are right about why post-COVID remote workers have this preference. Rattner writes that he thinks virtual commuters have “gone soft” and quotes JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon as stating that the remote option appeals to individuals who don’t want to “hustle” as much as they should. Americans’ “work ethic” is lacking, Rattner says, especially in comparison to that of the Chinese, which he describes as “extraordinary.
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