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Management is terrified of remote work because it reveals how useless many middle managers actually are.
by sparker72678 6y ago
Management is terrified of remote work because it reveals how useless many middle managers actually are.
- Animats 6y agoOne implication of work from home is that it makes manager performance more auditable. Everything a manager does is logged.
- sparker72678 6y agoExactly. And when most of your time is spent bringing people into your office to ask them for a project summary you could get online, remote shines a bright light on it.
- sanderjd 6y agoI honestly feel the opposite. It's more necessary for people managers to be greasing the skids of communication and inter-organizational awareness when I'm not bumping into people in the halls.
- sparker72678 6y agoI'm not disagreeing. Great managers are needed, and can still be great managers in a remote team.
- dnndev 6y agoIf a manager needs to do this it’s a smell of other team issues. A solid team is self organizing and delivers. You can mask the smell with someone policing... I guess it kind of works but will always be meh. A self organizing team is a managers nightmare. They end up transitioning to a QC role which is 1000% better use of their time
- sanderjd 6y agoNo, it is inefficient for all team members to be tied into the priorities of and in communication with all other relevant parts of the organization. Specialization is good. I often feel like people started swinging the pendulum away from manager-as-micromanaging-supervisor, and just letting it keep swinging to managers-are-pointless, and failed to notice when it swung past the useful managers-as-support-staff equilibrium point between those extremes.