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> People often end up working on wrong things.

The must have pretty bad managers then. Why should there be a trust issue? My manager assigns me a task, I do it on time and they are happy or I fail to do it on time and they are unhappy. How does where I do that task make a difference?

I think the return to office thing is just a cover for incompetent management.

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Yeah, let's say that it is incompetent management. As an business owner, you can fix the situation either by forcing people into offices, or firing the bad managers and recruiting a competent management instead. To me the latter solution sounds crazy expensive and difficult compared to the first.

> you can fix the situation either by forcing people into offices

That probably doesn't really fix the problem, the incompetent manager is probably still incompetent just in a smaller sphere of operations.

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