JetUNsetter

So now that the Great Remote Work Experiment has happened, we still argue about home office, corporate office and hybrid. Why do we argue? In the modern world where the economy is run by data, where is the data? What do the data say on this?

In any event, the common understanding is that managers want office and employees want home. But wait, managers are employees (!) … so what exactly is the polarisation about? If any other “employee” can learn to adapt over a Covid crisis to work from home what is it about managers that they find so hard to adapt to doing their work remotely? Is the manager a synonymous to a non agile old dog who can’t learn new trick? Doubt it, there are excellent managers out there and there have been throughout Covid. I would assume then the managers – employees polarisation is false or just political.

By the way, why is the case that in (almost?) every single company the ultimate manager – the CEO is never in the office 5days/ week 9-5 and they run a whole organisation pretty remotely from a phone or a tablet?

Perplexed and puzzled looking for sense… help!