Only part of the work done is teleworking, but teleworking is characteristic of our days. There it is, along with television and teleshopping, telecommand and reality television, telecommunications and telepolitics. Politics, in its relationship with the masses, … It has the means (more and more means) to influence fabulous numbers of viewers. Politicians in the exercise of their position are one of the professions that can take the most and best advantage of teleworking in its various aspects, including that genre of reality television that often shapes their relationship with the people.
Monday was the day of Saint Peter the Martyr. Today is Labor Day and we assume that teleworking is included in the agenda, its agenda and its demands, although there is a prejudice born in industrial society according to which a white-collar worker is less of a worker than a steelworker. Not because they work fewer hours or with less effort, but because their intellectual or clerical condition only allows access to working class status to a lower and suspicious degree, as if employees who do not belong to the noble order of manual labor were always ready. of becoming capitalists, something that statistics deny. Teleworkers are white-collar workers.
At the moment, streets cannot be swept remotely (everything will be done), nor do classic manual jobs done remotely, which are largely carried out by specialist robots on assembly lines. The rapid evolution of humanoid robots allows us to envision a future in which the human worker is replaced by his artificial equivalent. As it is still cheaper to make people (it makes itself) than robots, a long time of abuse and exploitation in legal and clandestine workshops lies ahead.
In Spain, 22% of workers telework, either regularly or sporadically, and almost all of those who do so have university studies. It seems that teleworking, if not all week, part of it, allows people to organize themselves better, save time and even eat as God intended. There are signs that it can make those who benefit from it happier thanks to the computer, the Internet and teleconferencing. Every May 1, historical events of the 20th century are commemorated, but it is the problems of today’s work that demand us. Starting from the past is good to understand evolution and changes, similarities and differences. Comparisons are valuable. The past is a powerful support for understanding the present, and the rapid changes in the present raise disturbing but necessary questions about the future.
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