Today’s readings made me think about the atmosphere, interior design, and infrastructure of contemporary digital industry associated offices (last year I happened to visit the headquarters of Amazon, Google, and Facebook in San Francisco, the Valley, and Seattle). With all the free food kitchens, meditation and yoga rooms, and the fact that employees are allowed/encouraged to wear PJ to work, it looks the borderline between “work” and “life” is strategically blurred in order to make the employees work always and never. In a way, this might illustrate Terranova’s speculation on how digital labor is “voluntarily given and unwaged, enjoyed and exploited.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCqNEqtN43c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCqNEqtN43c
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