There is a hard push against remote work right now.
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It's probably a lot of things. I've been working remotely for ~10 years, and when almost everyone started doing it I noticed the following:
I've definitely noticed a slowdown in the pace of things, but I think a lot of it can be laid at the feet of all the meetings and people having to wait for a meeting to occur before they can do something.
That reads like the people in charge don't know how to run a remote worker office, and have compensated with bad ideas and resentment.
That is accurate. And I have no reason to assume it was the exception and not the rule.
Mangers at big companies are no longer allowed to competently manage people, because to do would harm their Diversity and Inclusion scores and therefore their careers.
You have made a true point there.
And being relatively low on the totem pole.
I learned long ago that when I depended on people's physical presence I had to offer them something in return so they didn't feel taken advantage of. Unfortunately that apparently wasn't a lesson everyone on my team had learned.
Sucker.
I worked with a guy in his 60s who would come in every day during peak WuFlu insanity while all the 30-something engineers were at home.
He used to half-joke that he was the only one in the department with any sort of statistical chance of dying if he got sick, yet he had to be in the office while almost everyone else didn't.