Published 19 December 2021 at 08.04
Domestic. For companies, government loans and support have become more important than what employees do at work, and for employees, housing has taken over as the main source of income rather than work. A new kind of economy is emerging, and now leading Western media are suggesting how the opportunity to work from home can be used to not work at all at best.
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In the US, the Fed is talking about restricting its bond purchases for fear of inflation, but the Swedish Riksbank maintains that inflation is transient and continues to push new money into large Swedish companies.
Now leading media is openly tips on how to “work from home” without working – and this without the company as an employer noticing anything.
However, not all companies can sell bonds to their central banks, but only the largest ones. The disadvantages of working in a company of normal or smaller size are therefore obvious to those who want to relax during working hours.
In the Telgraph, a frustrated small business owner writes about how he wants his employees to show up at the office because he heard them brag in the dining room about how they watch movies and relax instead of working the last time they “worked” from home. But he is quickly taught by the newspaper's expert:
“If you force them to show up even though they do not want to, you create malice that will break down their work ethic,” the entrepreneur learns.
< p>How many companies the expert – a female journalist – has run herself is not clear from the article. It is clear, however, that many journalists have experience of working from home during the pandemic.
SvD Näringsliv writes in an article entitled “The tricks that can deceive the boss at home work” that you can fake work in internal work forums and chat functions such as Slack and Microsoft Teams by attaching your computer mouse to something moving, such as a rotating fan, while doing something other than sitting at the computer.
“You can also buy USB sticks that make the computer simulate both keyboard movements and mouse movements,” suggests SvD.
American Bloomberg has under the slightly more toned-down heading “Four ways to continue working from home when the boss wants you back “suggested similar methods.
One of Bloomberg's experts on home relaxation suggests that you should start early in the morning, before someone else comes to work, and then respond to important messages.
< It creates the impression that you are always working, she tells Bloomberg.
Business Insider suggests that you can pretend to participate in video meetings, at least in larger groups, by recording a video of yourself oneself that is looped, where you occasionally get a bad connection and do not hear what the others are saying.
What the rising prices and homework will do with inflation in the long run remains to be seen. However, the Swedish Riksbank has been clear that inflation is “transient”, something which the Governor of the Riksbank, Stefan Ingves, in November, however, adjusted to “most likely transient”.