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3vi1 t1_jecdcb7 wrote

"Work in the office" is just the manager's way of saying they don't understand what you do and have no way to measure your output unless they can constantly look over at your desk and make sure you're not happy.

I've been in IT for 30+ years. Many of those years I was working alone, remoted into routers and switches overseas from my desk, all day long.

When the pandemic hit, and we were told to work from home, I busted my ass to get *more* done. I wanted to show them it could work.

It actually turned out to be easy. I had a 1.75 hour commute each day, so without that I just worked an extra hour a day- not even on purpose most days. It was no skin off my nose and I was still free from work earlier than I would have been. I got a huge bonus, and a promotion.

If I have to go back in the office every single day - my company will just lose 300+ hours of extra work, from a person with decades of experience in my field, each year. The days I go into the office are the least productive days for my organization.

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EternalNY1 t1_jecwmbt wrote

>I've been in IT for 30+ years.

Same here, and remote for over a decade, far before the pandemic.

These return-to-office policies are especially absurd in IT, as literally everything I do is logged.

Every line of code I check in, pull request I complete, comment I make in our item tracker, timestamps on when I log into servers, exactly what I'm doing on said servers, discussions in Teams and Slack, emails ... all day long, every day.

If they think I'm sitting around watching Netflix on the couch all day, they can simply look in our DevOps system and see all the lines of code I've comitted.

Makes no sense.

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G3sch4n t1_jegoyn3 wrote

The only somewhat understandable argument is that sometimes great ideas are based on random exchanges between people from different projects that happen during coffee or lunch breaks, but if teams/slack/zoom are used effectively, you can mimick that with group calls.

Specifically gamers tend to communicate that way in tools like discord and teamspeak.

Many of the bigger mmo rpg guilds are basically structured like companies. Remote communication works just fine for them.

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Jorycle t1_jed962j wrote

>"Work in the office" is just the manager's way of saying they don't understand what you do and have no way to measure your output unless they can constantly look over at your desk and make sure you're not happy.

More like, it's the manager's way of saying "my manager is starting to notice my job serves no purpose when I can't roam the halls like a freak, badgering employees and picking up buzzwords to drop into conversations, and his manager is starting to notice, too."

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ethereal3xp OP t1_ject4od wrote

>"Work in the office" is just the manager's way of saying they don't understand what you do and have no way to measure your output unless they can constantly look over at your desk and make sure you're not happy.

This is sad if true.... get happy off the misery of others

Thats really...

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