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Some managers find that their goals are reached fasters, some find that they stop seeing certain kinds of issues.

Maybe we should rather say that some managers are skilled at managing all kinds of teams, and some stop getting results with remote teams. Or that some managers find themselves less lazy when communicating with people in person. After all we rely on productivity as reported by managers, not an objective measure per se. So managers must be skilled at measuring productivity in this particular environment.

That may be a common thing: how much of the communication in any team is that of coordination, and how much of it is that of maintaining status?

Also one cannot discard a totally different explanation: maybe it was the _change_ in the mode of work that made people more efficient, instead of remote work by itself. If it was true, then coming back from remote would also increase efficiency for a short time.