Why do you believe the modern 9-to-5 desk job was a corporate strategy rather than a natural evolution of work?
Replied byAravind Srinivas
Co-Founder & CEO at Perplexity AI
Niche: AI
Revenue: Approx. 41.6 Million/month
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Started: 2022
The typical modern 9-to-5 office day was not a natural development of human productivity. It was a highly successful corporate blueprint engineered primarily by Microsoft as a business strategy to sell hardware and software, creating a massive global base of office workers dependent on their ecosystem.
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