What's funny is that I love remote work, but I have all these problems. But I think they are actually related to the other overthinks and managers on teams tha

What's funny is that I love remote work, but I have all these problems. But I think they are actually related to the other overthinks and managers on teams that also struggle with the remote work. As someone who can walk away any time, that backup thought kills the anxiety straight away. But dealing with an entire office of anxious, overthinking engineers is incredibly stressful, and always has been. Then these people think taking it out on their coworkers is fine, because "well, everyone is stressed out" If people can learn to work remotely in a hybrid company, they also need to teach the onsite people to learn to work with the remote people correctly, which most people, especially managers, DO NOT DO. Bad managers the last 2 years have been freaking out at about the lack of control of headcounts and butts in seats and semi comatose clock watching. But a lot of people are done with that, at almost any cost. Look at all those open jobs that can't be filled at minimum wage. Who wants to work a minimum wage job with customers that are going more literally insane day by day. Maybe Gitlab had it right all along. Remote first is really the only way. At least everyone is on the same playing ground then. Even when you get management together (for some reason the higher you go, the more people think "face time" is important), they will gossip like an office, but that won't happen with their reports (underlings). It's just very one-sided.