I work for a pretty successful company (by any measure), and have had multiple startup exits before that, and I would know it was time to retire immediately if

I work for a pretty successful company (by any measure), and have had multiple startup exits before that, and I would know it was time to retire immediately if I started thinking like you. > One new hire on my team spends upwards of 2 hours per day "walking her dog." I once came up with the idea for a product which has generated several hundred million dollars in revenue on a dog walk in the middle of the day. This morning while on a dog walk (on Sunday), I came up with the solution to a problem which has been vexing a team of 8-9 people for many months and will unblock millions of dollars of potential. The very notion that someone is not working because they are not in front of their computer screen marks you as someone who is wholly unfit to be a manager of people. 80% of the job of a software engineer is thinking. > Now, the post-covid hires, especially the junior engineers, just do the bare minimum to scrape by The entire industry would be better off if people just DID LESS. Complexity abounds because people want to be seen to "be doing something" to impress people like you. Again, 80% of the job of a software engineer is thinking. > Work-from-home abuse is another component of this observation. If you think people don't work at home, you should see what they do at an office when they can make small talk with other incapables.