FLEXIBILITY AT WORK

As a doctorate student, the object of study is Identity and Work. I've been investigating and working on my "thesis to be" and recently I read a book by Richard Sennett entitled The Corrosion of Character - Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism.
The book is a crucial and critical view of work and the work concept in today's world. As an employee or employer or social thinker, the book gives you some deep and disturbing insights about the consequences of work in the new capitalism, as the title so cites.
So, going to the point, in his book, Sennett draws conclusions from stories and anectodes he collected in order to explain the work concept in today's economy / society.
Throughout the book, Sennett points out some deep and disturbing contradictions between values and practices and the consequences of such gaps.
One of the aspects that Sennett points out is flexibility. Theoretically a concept that is associated with freedom at work, a new concept in today's economic and labour context, and a new mindset for today's worker.
However, the contradiction lies in fact that, flexibility, instead for giving and creating opportunity for freedom greater autonomy and responsibilty, is instead a new way of oppresion and control of the worker.
Such dissension between values / speech and practice, according to the author, is the bedrock of the bewilderment shown by today's workforce.
Nevertheless, however irksome this reality may seem, Sennett presents some anectodes that illlustrate how this power structure is put in place, using the technological resources such as phone, e-mails, etc. to confrim that the person is effectively woking. Instead of putting a real focus on results, independently of how and when the work is produced.
What motivates this post is a simple one, is today's identity and identity concept based on such incongruences? In other words, the newer generation is growing up in this "new economy", therefore, living closely with such incongruences. Does this familiarity and closeness with this reality imply a new identity for the future generations?
The corrosion of the character, as a consequence of the discrepancies between today's work values/udeologies and practices, apply to future generations, considering that the only reality they will know is this one?
What's your opinion, please leave a post.