Why Managers Fear a Remote-Work Future

Why Managers Fear a Remote-Work Future
theatlantic.com

Are people finding that managers have become more efficient in remote settings?

> "Ultimately, Spielberg balked, and last month his company even signed a deal with Netflix, likely because he now sees the writing on the wall: Modern audiences enjoy watching movies at home."

Yea, because movies are stupid expensive. 20 years ago it was literally half as much to see a movie. You want more people in the audience in a theater? Lower the price. The simple economics behind this are astonishing. You're competing with the home experience which has become a lot better over the last decade. Which direction did you seriously expect this to go?

Get rid of matinee and make that the standard price at every hour on Sun-Thu.

Part of the status is signaled by showing how many > they have and giving orders to them.

Part of the status is signaled by beign able to be out of office whenever they want vs the worker bees that must be at the office 9-to-5 M-to-F.

Having to politely ask things on slack to a worker bee that is probably working lying on a couch with a smoothie in it´s hand is a manager vision of hell.

tl;dr: it´s not a lack of workers performance, but a wounded manager ego.

edit: I have never been downvoted as fast as in this case. It took less that a minute. Did I struck a nerve?

I think managers can suffer from impostor syndrome, possibly even more than their employees. It's pretty easy to spot the behaviors of an insecure manager. Micromanaging. Needing to know all the details. Any now, not having face time as a means to assess his employees.

Remote work means managers need to learn a new way of doing their jobs. I don't think it means they will become redundant. I think it is more a matter of the discomfort some people get when required to learn a new job: "Can't I learn this?" "Will I be competent?" "This makes me uncomfortable." "It's just easier for me to make my employees come into the office."