because how else will bad managers know people they manage are working?
- Not all work is best done remotely.
- Some situations require micromanagement.
- Some people need the sort of hands-on in-person management to have them achieve their best.
All of these things justify office space, and all of them can be true without invalidating your very apparent personal preference toward fully remote work. None of these points are particularly hot takes. Just the realities of the workplace instead of me being blinded by my personal desires for how things should be. It’d be great if none of these were true. As a remote employee myself, personally save me a lot of travel time. But I can’t just close my eyes and write snarky Hacker News comments and magic it into reality.
I find it a little ironic that your purely contrarian approach would include levelling that accusation at me. I've tried to keep it light-hearted, but I think I've tried enough.
Correction: Unless you're working in some kind of cooperative, which you almost certainly are not, it's actually the shareholders who are depending on you. Your coworkers only depend on you to the extent that they're also dedicated to serving the shareholders.