Flipping the script on flexibility
Bosses control our time - Time to flip the script
As part of my union job, I have been working on working time issues. After two recent seminars, I sat down and came up with a list of management concepts and themes and tried to develop a counter-narrative to all those concepts that make our working time so miserable.
I would love to hear from you which concepts management employs and how we can flip the script.
Here you go:
hugs,
mark
That's brilliant Mark. My impression is that one key point that pervades many of these categories is (wage) theft. In other words, being asked to be "work ready" without being compensated at all or adequately. Unsurprisingly, this systematic robbery cum uncertainty makes us anxious, nervous, prone to disease, accidents and arguments with colleagues and family.
And below that is the inadequate staffing in many sectors and organisations, which is compensated for by such theft of time and work. I find the idea of flipping the script excellent, while remembering why the script is here in the first place. A few years ago, in a large hospital outside Paris where workers were complaining about staff shortages and threatening to take industrial action, management proudly "gave" them a full day training aimed at fixing the problem. Its subject was laughter therapy.