[LurkandComment]

The whole productivity movement is turning out to be a lie:

1) With the internet you can work from home and not have to travel. Time savings.

Your company: We want you to commute in everyday and waste time.

2) Use our platform to network productively.

Also platform: Waste hours of time playing shitty games.

3) AI will save you time.

Your Company: Don't negotiate with us because you are being productive. We will replace you with AI... really some people overseas we call AI.

[akudha]

I disagree with the shitty games part. They may or may not be a waste of time, depending on the person, but games like bracket.city (which I found on HN) and NYTimes Connections are genuinely fun and enjoyable to play.

Agree with AI and commute

[vladms]

I think that if you expect that "movements" that promise you something, to deliver at 100%, you are in for many disappointments.

Still, it is not like nothing happens:

1) Many people I know in IT work at least partially from home, thing which would have not been possible 20 years ago.

2) I find networking in any circumstances a hit and miss and depending also on luck. Of course people try to attract you with promises, but it was the same for events/conferences/you name it.

3) AI saves many people time. Maybe it will not reduce the time by 10x (and if it does, search for another job), but it's still better than nothing. And it's not something, new for example google translate saves people time since some time already.

[bluGill]

25 years ago my boss told me one day not to come in the next day because I was on a critical path for the next release and he didn't want me discracted by office things.

[reactordev]

Ai Shrinivas has soooo many work opportunities…

The reality is, no matter how you spin it, labor marketing is labor marketing - intended to trick you into continuing to participate.

[ajkjk]

They're not exactly lies; being a lie would imply it was claimed to be true in the first place. Whomst among us still believes thinks that a company saying "use our platform to network productively" is an assertion of truth? It's slop (AI-generated or not): filler text that goes where the filler text goes (website copy, CEO's mouths) in order to not upset the mysterious pipeline by which ads make money magically appear. It is not functionally different from "Lorem Ipsum" text.

[jayd16]

A commute is not work time so it's not what they would think of as waste.

You just like to not commute and that conflicts with the business desire. That alone is not a lie.

[makeitdouble]

That is technically correct for a portion of the workforce.

And there's two simple cases outside of that:

- workers not paid hourly. If you're paid by the day or on another scale, commute time is wasted for both the company and the worker. Time is zero-sum after all, and in that case the company pays the same whatever happens.

- workers with external constraints (kids, health, public transport availability etc.). A worker will leave earlier if they need to commute to their kid's daycare or their doctor's office. Salary might be deducted, but if your workers are carrying their weight that's lost opportunities that are avoidable.