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I have been thinking a lot about this. I htnk there are different motivators at different levels of management. Workers, devs, support engineers, admins, whoev
by MaxPengwing 4y ago
I have been thinking a lot about this. I htnk there are different motivators at different levels of management.
Workers, devs, support engineers, admins, whoever is doing non managerial taskas seem to be split pretty much 50/50 with some minorities wanting to absolutley never go in to the office (like myself) and others who are dying to go in to the office being ca 15%-ish from the numbers I've seen.
Im an introvert and what immediately struck me by this is that this corresponds very much to the ratio of Extroverts to Introverts in any given cohort and organisation in the West.
It gets further more interesting when you realise that management tend to be over represented by extroverts to about 65-70% in middle and upper management.
Leadership in c-suite and founders is a bit different though and the stats on it is not very good from what I have seen. But it seems to me that hired CEO's tend to be extroverts, but founder CEO's tend to be introverts.
Now Extroverts thrive and want social interaction and are generally convinced that this is the only way to manage and to teamwork. Introverts on the otherhand would disagree.
Now that combined with the FAANG/FAANG-like orgs having in many cases made HUGE campus investments (Apples UFO doughnut building, Google Campus, Facebook Campus, Salesforce collection of "towers") have been built as a way to basically warehouse money. They are assets, and it's a prestige thing to have built a giant HQ and have it filled with people. So much so that they have gotten tax breaks since there has been an understanding that having a giant building with X thousands commuting would meant small businesses would thrive from all the shopping.
Which is why everyone during the first 6-8 months of the pandemic were freaking out about the economy, as so many small companies died due to no customers.