‘Working from home’ is another framing that needs rethinking. It’s like ‘work-life balance’. We keep framing…

‘Working from home’ is another framing that needs rethinking. It’s like ‘work-life balance’. We keep framing work as an opposite to life and home. Many workers like working from home because they want their work to happen in their community, where they live. /1 https://t.co/UuV0h9fqVv

(Graph from Roy Morgan and the Melbourne Institute, their ‘Taking the Pulse survey). Decades of border protection politics should have taught us that being grounded in at least some way to where we live still matters deeply to people. The ‘Economy’ is mostly a process…/2 https://t.co/PwtVKZVcwV

…of severing that grounding, as I’ve Tweeted about. To mobilise people and resources towards a constant accumulation machine of wealth to small groups. The old imperial model, just rebadged in modern ‘economic’ jargon. Working from home should be seen as people asking…/3

…to reinvigorate their communities, to stop them just becoming suburban car parks for workers forced to commute daily to ‘work’. Why the Economy crowd love transport. ‘Move to where the jobs are’, as they love to say. Why we can’t use our labour to constantly enrich and…/4

…improve the communities where we actually live is never asked. /end