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I polled my network of about 30 people in tech to get a rough idea of who preferred hybrid vs. in-office. Almost all managers of people wanted it to be in-office. Not even hybrid. Bad survey, but still.

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That matches what I'd expect. Individual contributors think about their own situation, managers are supposed to think about the bigger picture, about making something more than the sum of the parts.

It also matches the sad stereotype that middle management types with no real clue what their staff do, need to see bums on seats to have any concept of worker productivity because they're incapable of measuring the actual productivity of their reports.

Which raises a question that those middle managers don't want asked: What value do they actually add to the business?

>What value do they actually add to the business?

We bring the right people together at the right time to solve the right problem

how do you achieve that, and why do you think that the right people wouldn't be able to achieve the same with remote sync and upfront email exchanges without you?

That, Detective, is the right question.

Withing that is this implicit assumption that managers are correct that forcing people back to the office will make everyone more productive.

that's a non-sequitur. you have stated that a manager cares about the bigger picture and you have implied that in-office is better for the bigger picture, but you haven't provided any evidence/reasoning to link the two.

So strange. I’m a manager and me and my peers would never want that.

This is so true. I love wfh.

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