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Well this assumes the management cost (or inefficiency) does not go up for remote, which is unclear.

From personal experience, top-tier individual contributors are cheaper to manage.

That's part of what makes them top-tier!

Considering all the middle managers I know of are desperately trying to get the workforce back into offices because they seemingly have bugger-all to do now, I'd say you can cut out a fair few of them if you need to balance out a new cost.

Without being overworked, can a remote manager manage more people than an on-site manager? I don't know any remote managers

> Considering all the middle managers I know of are desperately trying to get the workforce back into offices because they seemingly have bugger-all to do now, I'd say you can cut out a fair few of them if you need to balance out a new cost.

Are you sure you've diagnosed this correctly? The managers I know are ready to get back to the office for the exact opposite reason - managing remotely is much harder and more time-consuming.

I'm talking about the types that value ass in seat over output. Of course good managers are still needed :)

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