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the real war against remote work is coming from middle management who can no longer hide under the 'I keep them in line' mantra. Corps have become bloated by to

the real war against remote work is coming from middle management who can no longer hide under the 'I keep them in line' mantra. Corps have become bloated by too little competition (e.g. from mergers) or collusion, toxic departmental politics, etc. We could lose half of middle management and pay the lowest tier more AND be more producive and profitable in many corps.

ghaff 3y ago
My experience feels a lot like middle management has had to work harder to connect and coordinate people with remote because a lot of the sort of organic in-person connections that happened among people at a company isn't happening to the same degree any longer.
- asdff 3y ago
  The issue with management (and a lot of jobs really) is that there is no ongoing training. You learn what you learn in school, you subscribe to the belief systems that seem good to you, and that is your dogma for your career. Being able to sit down and rethink your entire management approach requires careful studying of both what you are doing, and what the possibilities even are that you can do. How many managers you know do that, basically chose to become a life long learner in this space? If you know anyone like that, just tie your ship to theirs for the rest of your career if you can. Frankly most people don't care enough to be so self critical. Remote working takes doing things a little bit differently. Its not more challenging, its just different than what people come to know which seems challenging because they are a greenhorn again in this respect. People have been working in distributed teams or decades now. Some people at this point have probably had entire careers from college to retirement on distributed teams. Its not a new thing, its not an uncharted unknown, its not rocket science. The managers claiming it is have simply given up on learning to manage.

ghaff 3y ago

My experience feels a lot like middle management has had to work harder to connect and coordinate people with remote because a lot of the sort of organic in-person connections that happened among people at a company isn't happening to the same degree any longer.

asdff 3y ago
The issue with management (and a lot of jobs really) is that there is no ongoing training. You learn what you learn in school, you subscribe to the belief systems that seem good to you, and that is your dogma for your career. Being able to sit down and rethink your entire management approach requires careful studying of both what you are doing, and what the possibilities even are that you can do. How many managers you know do that, basically chose to become a life long learner in this space? If you know anyone like that, just tie your ship to theirs for the rest of your career if you can. Frankly most people don't care enough to be so self critical. Remote working takes doing things a little bit differently. Its not more challenging, its just different than what people come to know which seems challenging because they are a greenhorn again in this respect. People have been working in distributed teams or decades now. Some people at this point have probably had entire careers from college to retirement on distributed teams. Its not a new thing, its not an uncharted unknown, its not rocket science. The managers claiming it is have simply given up on learning to manage.