The naïveté that accompanies decisions to end WFH and require RTO exposes weak management.
Having worked in both arrangements, the facade is that everyone back in the office is inherently more productive.
I did no more work in the office than virtually. We wasted untold hours fucking off, socializing, and in counterproductive meetings. Too often simply being in attendance for eight hours was what required the most effort.
It’s the weak managers who are made comfortable by seeing “their” people. They’re not more effective in planning and directing work. If they were in fact talented in those areas they wouldn’t care about WFH. They’d know what to expect and when they weren’t getting it.
The utter disdain I feel — and show — toward such cowardly policies and the managers who hew to them cannot be hidden. Which only further frustrates the managers who confuse their place on the org chart with actual leadership.
I hope more people have this realization and act in ways which are best for their own satisfaction and wellbeing.