Dare Obasanjo

The reason many bosses don’t like employees working from home has little to do with productivity and more to do with the fact they hate working from home.

A lot of trappings of power from corner offices to large staff meetings are lost when they WFH.

https://www.businessinsider.com/work-from-home-return-to-office-sexism-women-bosses-employees-2023-4?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=insider-author-post

The real reason bosses hate work from home, love employees in the office

Why are so many CEOs ordering everyone back to the office? Because they think offices are "hardcore" and working from home is "soft."

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Apr 23, 2023 at 7:51pmWeb
Show threadArwen IncognitoApr 23, 2023
@carnage4life i love this and believe it to be true
Show threadKiranApr 23, 2023
@carnage4life it’s a broad generalization. Better collaboration is the main reason.
Show threadTim RichardsApr 24, 2023

@carnage4life Excellent read, I hadn't really thought about that status angle.

This line is very telling: "Steven Rattner, in his Times op-ed article, even went so far as to praise China — where many workers are expected to toil from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week — for its 'extraordinary' work ethic."

That's classic pointless presenteeism, absolutely nothing to do with productivity and everything to do with appearance.

Show threadMark ParnellApr 24, 2023
@carnage4life The one scintilla of sympathy I have with anti- remote work managers is that a greater proportion of a manger’s time is spent in meetings. This is fine when it’s face to face put sucks when your day is an endless stream of Zoom meetings. Whereas the lack of distractions for IC’s working at home can be super refreshing.