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>I have to rant about the home office situation in general, but also specifically at my place of employment and similar places. I cannot stand the fake positivity and cute-sounding arguments for returning to the office. It falls flat for so many and it’s trying to make it sound more legitimate by evoking this image of collaboration, being social, kindness, having a good time together when that’s not the point. The point is micromanagement and needing to justify the large office spaces they invested into. Very rarely are there positions or departments who truly need to collab in person, and then they can just do that for the occasion, not a fixed amount of days per week or month where they need to go in at all times.

Archive: https://archive.today/55Bqw From the post: >>I have to rant about the home office situation in general, but also specifically at my place of employment and similar places. I cannot stand the fake positivity and cute-sounding arguments for returning to the office. It falls flat for so many and it’s trying to make it sound more legitimate by evoking this image of collaboration, being social, kindness, having a good time together when that’s not the point. The point is micromanagement and needing to justify the large office spaces they invested into. Very rarely are there positions or departments who truly need to collab in person, and then they can just do that for the occasion, not a fixed amount of days per week or month where they need to go in at all times.

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>Many people can work at home just as, or more productively than in an office. The real problem is that managers will have to start managing and assessing real value and productivity, and then they will have to trim the fat. A lot of the fat is management, so you can see why this is problematic.

Bingo. Some people can work as well or better remotely. Admittedly, some people's telework is fake and they're just hiding at home. It differs by person and position of course. But you are exactly right that it is easier for management to blanket force everyone back full time than assess who is productive and who isn't. Moreover, if they tried it would likely become apparent rather quickly that they don't need that many managers to figure these tyle things out, and the most of the one's they do have don't know how to do it.