| Why are decisions more difficult? At the C suite level you have decisions going downstream to a bunch of offices that are never visited directly anyway. The only thing I agree with is that onboarding is more difficult, but we haven't exactlty been in a hiring moood as of late. > If you’re a very disciplined individual contributor focusing on low collaboration units of work, then it’s likely you did see a productivity boost. It’s unlikely you could maintain it over long periods of time. But even if you did, you’re probably an outlier. A lot of development work is heads down. That's why I agree hybrid is the best approach, but I argue it doesn't even need to be once a week for many. Maybe go in bouts of a few weeks or even months, then have 1-2 weeks of in-person planning. But this doesn't fit the 9-5 they want to push. >The fact ICs think productivity is the most important thing they can provide is a signal they’re wrong (in the eyes of a leadership team). >The management team doesn't want it to be up for discussion, and doesn’t want to create wfh subclasses of employees, which is what data would lead to. All I hear is that managers ultimately care more about preserving their jobs (or the concept of their jobs) than about actually providing value to the company. And Managers are the ones that get to talk to executives, not CEOS. Hearing that IC's are "wrong" for following their job description to "individually contribute" sure does sum up today's job market. |