Many managers (executives included) need to see bums on seats and count hours in the office: they have very little to no other ways to measure worker productivi

Many managers (executives included) need to see bums on seats and count hours in the office: they have very little to no other ways to measure worker productivity. As others say, it is trust but it is also a way of staying relevant for many bad managers. One of the big things coming from the pandemic was that wfh did not collapse entire companies but actually worked. A lot of management insisting people in the office 'was the only way' turned out to be more a problem with the quality of management than anything else.