In the meaty past, humans gathered in offices in close proximity and tried to appear busy during "core office hours," which were often more than 40 a week. Many people wrote about how most of that time could not be spent doing valuable work, but everyone kept the act up.
Now, in the days of plague and distance, we don't need to fake all of that and can focus on accomplishing valuable things.
The problem is that many managers grew into their positions playing the politics of meat space. They "provided value" by being very visible to people. They are having a hard time now that we're all starting to question their previous value.
In the meaty past, humans gathered in offices in close proximity and tried to appear busy during "core office hours," which were often more than 40 a week. Many people wrote about how most of that time could not be spent doing valuable work, but everyone kept the act up.
Now, in the days of plague and distance, we don't need to fake all of that and can focus on accomplishing valuable things.
The problem is that many managers grew into their positions playing the politics of meat space. They "provided value" by being very visible to people. They are having a hard time now that we're all starting to question their previous value.
This entire piece is garbage.