{"id":1349,"date":"2005-02-07T06:23:46","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T14:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/07\/the-office-of-the-future\/"},"modified":"2005-02-07T06:23:46","modified_gmt":"2005-02-07T14:23:46","slug":"the-office-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"The office of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Demi at Pilgrim’s Progress<\/a> links to LA Mom<\/a>, who in turn links to this photo-essay (with music) of the working environment at Motherhood magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Demi writes:<\/p>\n

There is no reason whatsoever to think that every office couldn’t look something like that. The babies would be a “distraction”? No more so than the usual, trite sexual tensions, politics and “banter” in the “ordinary” office. Breasts showing during feedings? Why not? That’s what they’re there for, what they were made for. Cleavage is distracting, too, and serves no purpose *but* to distract. After some time, you won’t even notice the little bit of boobage flashing now and then.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Our economy – and, in particular, our workplaces – are still modeled on the “Father Knows Best” model, in which all workers are implicitly assumed to have wives at home, taking care of the babies. This model of the workplace is costly to women who’d like (or need) careers but are economically punished for being mothers, and also costly to men who’d like (or need) careers but wind up being alienated from a family they barely ever see.<\/p>\n

Some individuals successfully opt out of the “Father Knows Best” economy, of course. But most don’t. The workplace makes default assumptions about family life that haven’t been true for decades. We should change that default assumption to something more suited for the 21st century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Demi at Pilgrim’s Progress links to LA Mom, who in turn links to this photo-essay (with music) of the working environment at Motherhood magazine. As Demi writes: There is no reason whatsoever to think that every office couldn’t look something … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-and-the-like","category-gender-and-the-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}