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CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management

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Re: CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management

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Post by CyberDildonics »

bitcharmer wrote: post #335
otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #318

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Sorry, I've never read a "business thinkfluencer" in my life. Wouldn't even know where to find one. The undeniable fact is that people want "work from home" because they have serious issues following schedules and making plans. (Of course working from home only sweeps the problem under the carpet and creates bigger problems down the road.) Yes, these cats need to be herded. They can't self-organize. Also, the methods…

Congratulations, this is the most confidently incorrect set of statements I've read on the internet this week. I pity people who'd have to work under you. Sheesh.

This person has recently said that "solar panels are an ecological disaster", that "breathing is detrimental to health" because "oxygen is toxic and literal poison" and that "world war 3 started in 2010" so this is actually pretty tame in relative terms.

Re: CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management

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Post by DiggyJohnson »

sokoloff wrote: post #324
DiggyJohnson wrote: post #215

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Are you proposing that my management should be able to see my chat messages and email ad hoc and without approval or assistance from IT, legal, or their management? That seems bonkers to me.

I think in all team and project rooms/channels/email d-lists, yes, those should be easily readable by managers because they're not contemplated as private. I think DMs and individual emails should not be accessible to managers (absent a very specific legal/compliance/HR concern).

Oh, I certainly agree with that, and was hoping this was considered the norm (as it has been in my experience).

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Post by clocot »

sanderjd wrote: post #186
datadrivenangel wrote: post #80

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More formal communications and explicit cultural norms around communication. People in office do tend to communicate organically with the humans around them, but online it's much harder.

Sometimes I wonder if those of us who prefer remote work are just the same set of people who found "communicate organically with the humans around them" to be a major hindrance to their productivity. Increasingly more over time, I have come to really miss the office I went to every day before I worked remotely. I miss having coffee and lunch with people, saying hi on the way in and out, and I really miss having team…

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Re: CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management

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Post by DiggyJohnson »

Joeboy wrote: post #306
lolinder wrote: post #305

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I'm arguing against shrugging and saying "it's because of remote work" when your project is falling apart. Give the benefit of the doubt when there is doubt, but once there's no doubt then build the structure you need to make progress. Remote != Completely unstructured

> I'm arguing against shrugging and saying "it's because of remote work" Have I at any point said that?

I was hoping you’d get a response to this. I was confused too.
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