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shusaku
on Sept 17, 2024
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Amazon tells employees to return to office five da...
There’s no shortage of conspiracy theories online trying to explain return to office policies, when the simplest explanation “managers like being in the same room as employees” has sufficient explanatory power.
johnnyanmac
on Sept 17, 2024
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Do they? Even when I was in office at the tail end of COVID all my meetings were on Zoom anyway.
Regardless, such a trivial whimsy like that is a horrible way to place company wide decisions.
immibis
on Sept 17, 2024
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Managers like being able to see you at your desk looking busy. Otherwise they assume you're slacking off. They lack object permanence.
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