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>It's simply a question of realizing that technology was invented to save labor. That doesn't mean in order to dismiss your employees, it means to give them a vacation. In other words a shorter work week. And for you yourself as the owner--less to do. Why not do it? Well everyone feels guilty about it. Because they think having archaic minds when we DIDN'T have this technology, that they gotta go on behaving the same way as when machines didn't exist! Now, we have them, but we won't use them except in silly ways. For example, rushing around everywhere in cars, polluting the air. You know, you don't REALLY have to commute in most businesses if you have a TELEPHONE. Ever thought about that? Don't need an office. Don't need to go rushing around exhausting yourself and getting absolutely furious on the freeway in traffic jams. And we're all getting furious about things we can do nothing about. People read the newspapers, look at TV, and see the disasters occurring all over the world, and feel upset and mad; there's nothing we can do! Why waste our time? Pick up the telephone, it saves you the cost of a secretary. The chore of mailing stuff, sticking stamps on it and going to the post office. If you count up all the hours, you'll realize that the electronic method of communication (that's the technology) is much less expensive than the ordinary way one goes about things. Like how a car is a mechanical imitation of a horse and carriage. Completely irrational. Long ago, people invented automobiles that were far more serviceable, but they would somehow never get in to use. So, it is a matter of keeping your mind closely on what you want to happen and what can be done..instead of going through meaningless rituals. 

Alan Watts said this decades ago. If anything, there's even more 'ritualistic' work than before, despite even more technology. The VR office probably won't happen either.