In the Industrial Revolution, there was definitely a sense of communal hatred due to the proximity of your coworkers that later led to the 8 hour work week. France has protests weekly because of how their cities are compared to USA's garbage suburb/city/car system. With WFH, what's stopping isolated workers who are pretending they're working all day from being on instagram and liking reactionary memes?
If you wanna have a revolution, don't use terms like WFH, without writing down what they mean first.
WFH, but your H is unit 2338 in the Amazon Prime Housing ™ complex, so you just walk outside and see all your co-workers anyways.
on the other hand, it can make unionizing even easier if you are able to get a hold of that contact information, and talk to co workers from the comfort of your own home without your bosses hearing.
You could do that before. WFH just makes everything 10x harder.
You could just talk to them after the shift. It doesn't make a big difference. I don't even know if shifts are gonna be a thing any more if WFH progresses enough. It may just be "here's a bunch of shit you gotta do until tomorrow, byeeee!".
Yeah I don't care what is "cooler", I'm just really worried that when bosses figure that out it's gonna be very bad for the prospects of labour.
Well, actually the outlook is pretty bad. The bosses got the NLRB to determine that even though it's communication in the workplace, you do NOT have the right to perform concerted activity relating to job conditions, exploitation, etc over the email system. They can just ban you from speaking about this supposedly legally protected class of subjects. So that makes things a lot tougher, especially because it's harder to convince someone of something over the internet, without the benefit of body language.
Many of the jobs with the most potential for organizing never became wfh. These include warehouse workers, logistics workers, big box store employees, food service, healthcare workers etc. (i.e. the essential workers)
Many of the jobs that became work from home were the kind of pmc jobs that are resistant to organizing generally.
The former jobs category, if organized, are often at choke points of capital or inconvenience the bourgeoisie in a way the latter category of jobs usually don't.
In short, I don't think the current wfh situation has really changed much in terms of organizing. The situation is bad for reasons unrelated to wfh.
Who will work work from home? Accountants, designers, coders and lawyers? Their work will get fucked by ai and outsourcing.
Also work from home is useful in as much as it can get more people to go outside of imperial core due to costs of living, like whatever yippies think, getting imperial wage earner living on that wage in global south is net good for the south