Economics

seems that within the tech zeitgeist there is a growing trend of salaried employees who really only pretend to work - doing at most a few hours per week, obfuscated by Zoom, LLMs, outsourcing and naturally covered by layers of bureaucracy in the typically large company they work for. 

what does this mean for the future?
is this just a lagging zero-interest rate phenomenon, or is there something more fundamental?

building /amp and /guess. prev: 2x founder, improbable, github, amazon. ntik.me

This has been going on forever. It's the main goal, get a corporate IT job and you're secure, that's the meme.

Seems to me like this was much less practical before covid. Yes you could work less, but you are still in an office and under management watch. 

Now I see people just having a normal weekend type of day, doing errands, relaxing, etc - just making sure to hop on daily calls and push status updates:

The management is in it, everyone is in it, everyone in the office understands that the goal is to extract as much value from the company who care not about the workers - key point. It's a different dynamic at startups where they actually have to do work.

Seems to me like this was much less practical before covid. Yes you could work less, but you are still in an office and under management watch. 

Now I see people just having a normal weekend type of day, doing errands, relaxing, etc - just making sure to hop on daily calls and push status updates:

https://youtu.be/DYvhC_RdIwQ?si=m-S1ml2QQOwJcKRl