[akhilpotla]

This is also about job security. Technical people often have a record of what they have done. Think commits and PRs. Managers don't have this. Their job doesn't produce anything tangible, this is not to say that it is useless. There are good managers and bad managers, with the majority falling in the latter category.

Being seen in meeting rooms filled with people, talking to them, and pointing to things on a powerpoint presentation can give other more senior managers (who determine their position and compensation) the aura that they are hard at work and making things happen.

This of course is not very strong reasoning.

[_fat_santa]

And this feeds right into the mentality of: "If you ass isn't in a seat, you aren't working"

[thefz]

My previous manager arranged the furniture in his office to be sitting facing the door, computer at his side, to be able to look at us, and call us, more easily. Guess who was strongly for the return to office.

[kelseyfrog]

> the aura that they are hard at work and making things happen.

Yes, and looping it back into a point in the article: the status that these demonstrations are meant to confer (consciously or not).