The post argues that it’s management’s responsibility to make sure employees are adding value. This idea that managers shouldn’t care how many hours someone wor

The post argues that it’s management’s responsibility to make sure employees are adding value. This idea that managers shouldn’t care how many hours someone works as long as they get their shit done, goes counter to the idea that managers should be hands off a let engineers innovate. I think the most innovative companies let engineers prioritize much of the work. But in that case there is much less clarity about whether “shit got done”, so you’re paying for smart people allocating their creative energy into your business many hours each week. For the same reason, remote work ultimately brings a more transactional work environment and I believe less of a growth environment for individual professionals. People are so obsessed with the additional comfort that comes from working at home, that they fail to see that in fact there are real downsides.