The "adversarial style" is just an excuse for bad managers/companies. If you can't tell that a worker is not producing because they are WFH then you are plain

The "adversarial style" is just an excuse for bad managers/companies. If you can't tell that a worker is not producing because they are WFH then you are plain and simply incompetent. It's actually much easier to pretend to work in an office than it is at home in my experience. Another very common excuse to use this "style" (I don't agree it's a stylistic choice at all) is to cover up the real cause that employees are not productive. These can be a ton of reasons including: - hiring incompetent people - not paying your employees what they're worth (often the cause for the first one) - not letting them actually do their job (micromanagement, unnecessary bureaucracy, etc) - not giving them challenging work - inability to listen and change (employee's concerns are ignored) It's not a style choice at all.