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I’ve been remote for 15 years with the past 3 in a C level position.

People fuck around in the office and they do at home too. Expectation management and selling yourself (aka know how to communicate) is all that matters. I can sleep in, tell people the truth, and life is good.

Offices are fucking expensive. It burdens IT and it’s a performance art at the end of the day anyway.

The boards job is to fire me. As long as I maintain my roadmap and provide evidence of progress nobody who matters has time to think about this shit.

Manage your SG&A expenses, risk, and be nice to legal. You’ll be fine.

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Thats cool for you, but I'm speaking from my experience about my team's productivity falling off a cliff. Employees that do work when in the office, but wont even respond to email for days when working from home.

That may me a problem of the pepple tou hired, and how you lead them, instead of being a problem of where they work.

Perhaps they were slacking in the office as well, and only giving you the impression that they were busy. You might only be annoyed now because the mask is off.

If an employee cannot handle working from home then they can voluntarily return to office or be terminated for cause.

I’ve been leading a team remotely since March 2020 and have had no issues with my team that wasn’t cleared up after a quick conversation in our 1-1.

That's great for you. I have had good experiences long ago in other companies.

In my current company, team leads have little input on employee performance, and nobody has been fired or PIPed in my 100 person department in the last 10 years.

The primary thing that incentivized worker performance was social pressure and visibility from an in person environment.

You might say this is a management problem, and yes, I would agree. However, it still stands that this management problem is greatly exacerbated by hybrid and remote work.

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