"Presence vs productivity" is a wonderfully succinct way of describing it. The problem is that presence is easy to measure and so falls subject to the Streetli

"Presence vs productivity" is a wonderfully succinct way of describing it. The problem is that presence is easy to measure and so falls subject to the Streetlight Effect, or the Drunkard's Search Principle [0] — a type of observational bias where you look for the lost key under the streetlight because that is where the light is (so searching seems easy), but has nothing to do with where you actually lost the key. I remember reading a study long ago in the early Internet days (I wish I could find it now) where the findings were that remote work made good managers better, and bad managers worse, as measured by the performance of their teams. The reason this works now seems obvious, as good managers manage for actual productivity, whereas bad managers (or bad management systems) merely measure presence as if it equaled productivity, just as they'd look for their key under the streetlight like the apocryphal drunken dolt. It is an arm's race now, at least for people under poor management. Next step, already happening, is facial recognition [1]. Good luck! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect [1] https://www.twinfm.com/article/pwcs-facial-recognition-tools-to-monitor-home-workers https://www.twinfm.com/article/pwcs-facial-recognition-tools...