Changes on how, and where, we work need to come.

It's interesting to see how while some people already have the skills, and tools, to work from home effectively, most of the time they are reluctant to that option. It looks like that, while it could be more beneficial for them to do home office, the idea of making such a change is not one that come easy for them.

While it is true that home office is not the best option for everyone, many could be even more effective working from home. Specially those whose presence at the physical location of their company is not really required and the time to get to and from there is to long. Today, there are ways to get all the information they need from they coworkers without having to be at the same place, and with the advent of tools like remote desktops to access the tools they need from where ever they happen to be with an Internet connection, it becomes even more practical to work remotely.

Even a hybrid model, make people anxious about working remotely. Even when there is talk about the amount of time needed to get to work, or not having enough time for personal stuff, the idea of working remotely and getting some extra for personal use by not having to go work in other place, is a change not everyone is willing to make. It seems that they believe that not being present at the office all the time will make them irrelevant, even when they can give better results working from home.

To be honest, in many cases a hybrid work model would be most beneficial for most company and workers. Being able to work from home some days, while going to the office on others, would be both the companies and the employees more flexibility on their time management to be more effective at their jobs. With the benefit that people would be more happy and feeling more in control of how they work.

While it would require a lot of change to get the model to work, the tools are already there to make it work and the people already have the skills to use them effectively. The only thing lacking now, is the will to actually implement the changes, and to seem the through.

Falling behind with the technology that could help us get ahead.

I've noticed at work that there is a lot of misgivings about using technology we have at hand to work in better, even if it means doing things in a different way. It feels like people are scared of changing how we have worked so far, even when it has proved to work and it is better for us to make the changes to the processes to benefit everyone involved.

It feels like we are wasting valuable opportunities to improve things in ways that will benefit both the costumers and us in the long run. We could be finding ways to better serve our costumers, while making work easier and more enjoyable for us using the tools already in place. There is room for improvement, but the baseline is already there to start the move, and make in a way that that will help us improve our workflow with the input of those who will interact with tools directly.

As it is, I feel we are chasing what others are already doing instead of setting things in our own terms. Investment is done to catch up with were technology is now, instead of at least riding the wave. We are behind the curve, and its putting a lot of strain on how much we can compete in the marketplace.

The biggest hurdle is that there is a lack of will to do something about it, and it taking a negative tool on everyone. Hope time would prove me wrong, but it seems it won't be that way.

Right of repair should be a given.

The right to repair the things we own shouldn't be something that a president had to issue a executive order about. It should be a given, that if we legally acquired something, we should be able to have it repaired if that fits out needs.

Not only that, there should be a whole ecosystem of third party shops where we are able to get the repairs done if we so choose to have it done. There is a whole set of reasons why we should be legally able to do so, from price to convenience of access, that the manufactures of our devices shouldn't be able to stop us from getting repairs from third parties.

For third party shops to be able to repair our devices, there is no need for them to have full access to all the trade secrets of the manufacturer of the device. Just enough information to be able to perform repairs, just have access to the information needed to do the repair and the parts to make a quality repair.

Companies that block the right of repair of people, are not looking out for their customers. They are looking for their own bottom line, forcing their customers to either pay the what they ask for or buying new replacements for the device that broke down. Their best interest, is not always the best interest of their customers.

Repairing our things should be a normal part of the life cycle of all products. Extending the life our things, specially our electronic devices, is a good thing for the environment , since it helps to reduce e-waste. Most damage that most electronic devices encounter before they need to be replace is an easy fix, and as such it should be encourage to be fixed.

At the end, as owners of our devices, we should have the final say when we replace them and when only fixing them is what we need. When we buy them, they belong to us.

The companies that manufacture them don't have a say in when we replace them, or where we have them fixed.