>Nearly every meeting I’ve had in an office since 2014 has been a video conference with remote people. C-level leaders at my company set a mandate for our "dis

>Nearly every meeting I’ve had in an office since 2014 has been a video conference with remote people. C-level leaders at my company set a mandate for our "distributed sites" to be relatively autonomous with their own missions and roadmaps. But middle and line-level managers keep making exceptions, finding it expedient to use India and LatAm teams as extra hands for projects run out of the US, for example. So as an employee you experience most of your collaboration being remote. Your EM and your skip get it. But HR and the CEO don't. We're in a situation now where almost nobody knows anyone in their management chain who cares about their attendance, but the CEO and HR have made clear that they will be firing people who aren't badging in.