The Threat of Letting Go of Autonomy

The reasons for why we struggle with flexible work and giving our workforce more autonomy is actually threefold to some extent, probably a more. One is the cognitive biases that are going to kick in, but also the implicit biases and the way we learned to operate in specific. The other one is actually the power dynamics is Rob as you mentioned and somebody mentioned that in the CEO and the importance of understanding that the higher we go in hierarchy and we gain more power. And the last one I call it the autonomous tag of war, because it's not just that one size doesn't fit all, but also that we internally as human beings want both autonomy to have a control and has a sense of control