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Disagree. Every place I've ever worked has had 1 or 2 key guys on each team who made shit work while 8-10 others worked as you described. In the 27 years I've been working in the industry I've seen endless attempts both by individual managers and the industry to re-org or best practice or agile their way out of this, but the situation remains the same like a law of the universe.

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First two jobs out of university everyone pulled its weight. Great team spirit and atmosphere in both jobs, but after this the experience in my third job hit me even harder. Suddenly I am one of those two guys and the other one quits.

I don't think this is a reality we disagree on... companies accept it too, but still keep hiring those 8 to 10 folks. But those 1 or 2 usually get special treatment of some sort. The 8 or 10 are disposable commodities.

OK, but still I think the logistics of "everyone comes to the office except for Dan who can WFH because he's just really good at getting things to work" is probably kind of a hard policy to implement.

It is not when you look back and realize Dan has been WFH whenever he wants all this time, even before the whole Covid thing

Is it really that unusual? Even in the pre covid days, all the places I've worked had someone working remotely because of some reason or another, but the general policy was that everyone had to come in all or most days.

The WFH became almost a perk, like if you work hard enough and prove yourself, maybe we'd consider it.

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