THIS is exactly right. I wish I could find it again, but I was impressed by a study of remote work around 2010 that showed that remote work improved the result

THIS is exactly right. I wish I could find it again, but I was impressed by a study of remote work around 2010 that showed that remote work improved the results of teams with good managers and (further) degraded the results of teams with bad managers. A key difference between the good vs bad managers was that the good managers focused on specific tasks being accomplished whereas the bad managers focused on the usual indicators of work such as as time of butts being in seats, which has only an incidental and often inverse relation to quantity or quantity of work produced. This 'tech' is simply attempting to enable bad management with remote workforces. A good sign that remote is winning the war and here to stay. A bad sign that bad mgt will make it suck more (at least until AI eliminates those jobs for good).