"I suspect the real motivation behind RTO mandates has nothing to do with productivity or company culture and everything to do with control. That is what the modern office was designed for, after all."
Kathy Chow for The Walrus: https://thewalrus.ca/return-to-office-mandates/
#Longreads #Work #Labor #Office #ReturnToOffice #Productivity #Design
"I suspect the real motivation behind RTO mandates has nothing to do with productivity or company culture and everything to do with control. That is what the modern office was designed for, after all."
Kathy Chow for The Walrus: https://thewalrus.ca/return-to-office-mandates/
#Longreads #Work #Labor #Office #ReturnToOffice #Productivity #Design
"Fear was essential to keeping white power intact, and as the civil rights movement whipped up revolutionary energy across the Black Belt, Lummie’s and his colleagues’ efforts intensified."
An excerpt from the new #Atavist story, by Alexandra Marvar: https://longreads.com/2026/01/06/lummie-jenkins-alabama-atavist/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #History #America
#AmericanSouth #DeepSouth #Alabama #Racism #Sheriff #LawEnforcement #Journalism
"Fear was essential to keeping white power intact, and as the civil rights movement whipped up revolutionary energy across the Black Belt, Lummie’s and his colleagues’ efforts intensified."
An excerpt from the new #Atavist story, by Alexandra Marvar: https://longreads.com/2026/01/06/lummie-jenkins-alabama-atavist/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #History #America
#AmericanSouth #DeepSouth #Alabama #Racism #Sheriff #LawEnforcement #Journalism
