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A recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article dated May 31, 2023, titled "Why Workers Aren4 Coming Back to the Office Full-Time" (Smith & Carpenter, 2023), examines reasons employees prefer remote work, such as rising childcare costs, avoidance of micro-management, low interpersonal conflict, wardrobe requirements, food costs, commute time, and parking expenses. The WSJ has recently published multiple articles on remote work, including one on January 11, 2024, stating "Remote Workers Are Losing Out on Promotions, New Data Shows" (Chen, 2024), which claims remote workers were promoted 31% less frequently than office workers. Understanding the politics of organizational culture related to remote work preferences is crucial. We conducted a literature review using Google Scholar with key terms "remote work" and "office" OR "politics" OR "culture" from 2019 to 2023, including the COVID-19 pandemic period. There is a pressing need for a cultural shift within organizations to adopt remote and hybrid work models, driven by professionals' increasing demand for remote work options.
Keywords: culture, compensation, politics, remote work, scientific management, Taylorism, turnover
FREDERICK W. TAYLOR'S INFLUENCE ON ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1911) is the third pillar of the classical management perspective [along with Henri Fayol and Max Weber], contributing to the rise of the field of management (Bell & Martin, 2012; Kanigel, 2005; Schachter, 2010). As a pioneer, Taylor (1911) showed a visual depiction of a "fine workman" in late 19th Century and early 20th Century America and how a devoted manager builds organizational culture around the duties and burdens of his principles. Some authors are of the impression that Taylor was a product of his era, and that the views he held about human capital were forged by the beliefs and values of that era, especially regarding the politics of race; his safety at times required armed security protection from angry mobs (Bell & Martin, 2012; Gabor, 2000; Nelson, 1980; Nelson, 1995).
Taylorism had extreme political and cultural influences on the Task Work that laborers would [or could not] accept as piece-rate, particularly Hungarian, German and Black laborers (Nelson, 1995; Tylor, 1911). Taylorism remains an integral part of modern business work processes (Bell, 2011). An excerpt from an article on ResearchGate titled, My Chat with ChatGPT Regarding Black Laborers ' Influence on Frederick W....