The truth is that what is known as teleworking has existed for many years, but since the pandemic that devastated almost all of us, it spread substantially. That is precisely where it was seen that many workers could carry out their tasks from home instead of going to the office in person.
It is quite likely that many of you already know firsthand that this benefited both companies and workers. Many corporations saved enormous office maintenance costs, while employees saved on travel and wasted hours.
But the pandemic was largely behind us, and in many cases both parties were forced to return to normality. That is, companies called their workers back to the offices to return to the normal situation. Despite all this, many of those who had become accustomed to the comfort of home have not welcomed this so-called return to normality.
In parallel, many companies prefer to have their employees visible in their offices for various reasons, all despite video calls. Hence, multiple conflicts have been generated between both parties throughout the world. Obviously, this is something that substantially affected the technology sector. Many believe that they can carry out their daily work at home, while on many occasions companies do not agree.
Now the opinion of one of the figures of the moment and greatest exponents of the development of the Artificial intelligence. Specifically, we refer to Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAIthe firm responsible for the popular ChatGPT platform.
Why the founder of ChatGPT rejects teleworking
This is a person who has been talked about a lot in recent months due to his enormous involvement in the AI sector. This is a technology that is constantly growing at the moment, one of the best-known platforms is the aforementioned ChatGPT. Well, from Altman’s point of view, the establishment of teleworking a few years ago was a tremendous mistake.
What’s more, he considers that the end of this type of relationship between workers and their companies is very close. One of the most important reasons, from his point of view, for this failure is that teleworking does not foster relationships between the company and the worker. This way it is much more difficult to consider and share new ideas. But this is not the only reason he argues for rejecting this way of working, there is more.
- Teleworking makes it difficult separate personal life from professional lifewhich harms the employee’s performance.
- The equipment safety that workers use at home is not comparable to that of companies, which can put platforms and projects at risk.
- Not interacting directly with coworkers can affect employees’ emotional health and, therefore, their performance.
- That companies cannot directly control the work of their employees can negatively affect both parties.
This rejection by the founder of OpenAI Regarding teleworking, it is totally contrary to the opinion of Bill Gates, for example.
