“Overall, our results do not support the argument that managers impose these mandates to increase firm values,” the authors state in their paper. “Instead, these findings are consistent with managers using RTO mandates to reassert control over employees and blame employees as a scapegoat for bad firm performance.”
It has become painfully obvious which managers suck at managing and only had “success” when they could micromanage people. WFH makes it much more difficult for managers to walk to the cubicle of the one person who will do the work regardless if it’s their responsibility. I’ve had multiple projects stall recently because the manager really only “manages” one hour a week. It’s an hour long project meeting that really should be more like a few short stand ups with smaller groups. But they run through their list and can’t redirect or fix any issues or confusion until the meeting next week.
I’d take the hour over 75% of my time going towards planning meetings to try and calculate if we can meet target deadlines.
Planning meetings don’t actually produce tasks either. Just round table gut checks.
Its been going on for a month… I’m looked at like the crazy person for non-stop repeating to let the engineers break down the work and do estimates and then the project people can do velocity calculations after every sprint to get the answers they want. We’d have 4 weeks of data if they would just fuck off.