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Even then, management realized that WFH was just an excuse to goof-off if your butt was not seen in the company chair.

• coldtea 3y ago
  Yes, even then management was incompetent. People have worked remotely, seldom or never seen "in the company chair", while being more productive than people in offices by orders of magnitude...
• ragebol 3y ago
  The full quote surrounding that from my comment: > At this point, Dijkstra had become the opposite of busy. He spent almost all of his time thinking and recording his ideas. He only came to campus on Tuesdays. And yet, as Dijkstra’s colleagues noted: > “The Burroughs years saw him at his most prolific in output of research articles. He wrote nearly 500 documents in the EWD series.” > In this specific case study we see hints of a general observation about slow productivity. Busyness is not the engine of production. It can, in many cases, instead be the obstacle to accomplishing your best work. So management was incompetent in not seeing this dude was prolific when thinking at home. But as with almost anything: it depends. Some people are work better from home, other do better in an office. All these return to office policies are BS IMHO: as long as the people you directly work with are OK with you working from home, go do that.