[seethishat]

The cost of dealing with remote employees who are not contributing as they should falls on the agencies. That's not insignificant. By requiring everyone to return, that cost is eliminated (or at least much less). IMO, in-person, on-site that cost is much less and the problems are easier to spot early and deal with before they get worse or become more widespread (more and more workers start slacking off).

[scarface_74]

And people don’t goof off in the office?

[sjsdaiuasgdia]

> IMO, in-person, on-site that cost is much less and the problems are easier to spot early and deal with before they get worse

Yeah that's an opinion alright.

I expect it's mostly shared by managers who are unable or unwilling to really think through the question of how they can monitor their employees' productivity.

If you need to visibly see someone working to measure where their productivity is versus your expectations, you're probably not a very good manager and you don't have a great handle on what your people are doing.

[_m_p]

The agencies pass it on to the taxpayers.