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Their former roles and industry experience is why they are noteworthy and being quoted. I have no idea why your takeaway is that, if I said "I used to live in san francisco" would your takeaway be that I now live homeless outside of any city? And if the subject was about measuring crime in san francisco, would former SFPD cops being quotes seem abnormal to you?

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I do think it would be very strange to write an article with the headline “Ex-Cops mock a new office policy”

It’s a very pointless article and it’s strange to focus on a few random people’s opinions on something that does not have obvious importance. Especially when hundreds of thousands of workers who are active.

One of these people seem to be a former entry level worker. Why? This is less valid than “some people on Twitter said”

Gergely Orosz has a very popular blog/newsletter and has posted on the McKinsey report.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/author/gergely/

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-develop...

That should be explained in the article then! Not citing his former role!

The newsletter is much better than the posted article. It's a detailed critique and discusses alternatives. Efinancialcareers posts a lot of low effort blog posts.

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