[jauntywundrkind]

Ideally it means a massive relaxation of the 9-5.

For my personal efforts yes I very much want on demand access, I want the thoughts to flow. It doesn't feel like that would be anything but great at my job too, if my job didn't define such narrow bounds of mandatory butts in chairs. What work says it wants is not effective, is not going to get my best work, is not going to really make sense. It didn't make sense before & it's absurdly out of pace with the Happy Warrior mode of software development today.

[palmotea]

>>> I went out to enjoy the Half Moon Bay 4th of July parade, occasionally checking in and prompting the next step for Fable from my phone.

>> This intensification of work will not be good for workers’ health. Like, put your phone down man. You can’t be modeling this behavior to young people.

> Ideally it means a massive relaxation of the 9-5.

Why? That's the time they've purchased. They'll just demand that and more. "People like Simon Willison are prompting during their 'off time,' and that's expected under our new ways of working."

Also, being always on, always available doesn't sound like it would amount to "massive relaxation."