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Wait wouldn’t a drone hitting a person or a ceiling fixture and then crashing into a person be really dangerous?

Like they’re fixing workplace culture by careening rotary aircraft around the room?

Yeah, that’s why it’s so important to get out of the office by 6. They don’t want anyone to get hurt.

does that really count as improving?

another way to make sure nobody gets hurt by the robots flying randomly around the space is to not set robots flying randomly around the space

If they aren't in physical danger why would they leave the office before 6pm?

Exactly- it’s risky business.

Has to be an extreme one-off case, but not completely implausible. Self reported overtime pay and cramped condominiums incentivize especially white-collar workers to slack and stay, and strong economy traditionally meant weaker incentives for management to control it(before factoring in that middle managers themselves might have slow cooking divorce too).

Nowadays many organizations have overtime pay caps, monitoring, and enforcement/encouragements - e.g. MDM on laptops, SSO login histories, or by turning off lights and HVAC. It is improving at a rate and in that kind of spirit, perhaps just not using glass breaking drones.

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