most of the return-to-office mandates come from a similar place: managers who need to justify their own existence. because let's be real — if you can't rely on adults to work well from home, you did a shitty job of hiring.
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Judd Legum
Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage
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Sadly, they’re the majority of managers / higher-ups in WFH-heavy industries.
Also, if we're trustworthy and good enough at our jobs to do it without some manager lording it over us, shouldn't they be paying us more?
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/20/meta-approves-plan-for-bigger-executives-bonuses-following-5percent-layoffs.html
We did WFH for years and have the data to back up how much it cost and gained us
I mean, i'm a manager and I don't want people going back to the office
I think it's HR people and consultants, as well as finance, people trying to figure out why they have these ten years facilities contracts that they can't get out of.
Manager.
The problem is management is typically tasked with finding said problems, or preventing them in the first place. Oops.
“My fucking job. Notice all those phone calls you didn’t get? Isn’t that what you pay me for?”
No amount of productivity will satisfy them, they will always expect more, regardless of how well anyone performs in any situation.
Of course, I do do other work. But yeah, if I wasn't writing reports, it'd become obvious very soon, and I'd look bad.
“How far does your leadership shadow fall?”
Go fuck yourself!