What's especially weird about this is that any executive will tell you they do a ton of their job on the phone and doing video calls both internally and with cu

What's especially weird about this is that any executive will tell you they do a ton of their job on the phone and doing video calls both internally and with customers. Speaking for myself, my job has become increasingly less local the further up I've moved, specifically because my influence is broader and requires touchpoints across the org regardless of geography. Now as a staff manager? Yeah, remote 1:1s and coaching is inferior to in person, at least IME. But that's about the only part of my job I would prefer to do in person. And its just that, a preference, as witnessed by the fact that I continue to do it even though I work from home full time right now and haven't seen my direct reports in person in over a year.