I'm currently in a Management and Supervision Bachelor degree program in the hope that I can one day move far enough up the ladder at my job to make a difference in the way employees are treated.
It's been…horrifyingly eye-opening to read through these textbooks. I'm taking five classes, this is my first semester of the program, and I've already had to read through multiple passages lauding the recent mass abolition of remote work and the golden standards of management set by companies like McDonalds and Tesla.
I can't even lie: they make it all sound so good. If I were in college as an 18 year old with little-to-no work experience, I could honestly see myself taking a lot of these principles to heart.
I feel as though we need more textbooks written and classes taught by employees and successful managers/businesses that treat employees correctly. We need classes on compassionate management. The best way to solve the problems we see in the workforce would probably be to reach people early, like in college, but doing so seems like such a Herculean task, you know? How would someone even go about starting that large of a cultural shift?