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ProfessorGAC

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7. Clearly, There Are Some Jobs...

Mon Jun 22, 2026, 09:39 AM

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...that can't be done from home.
Equally clearly, there are functions than can be.
Measuring productivity from data drawn from decades of in-person work would make standards simple to set.
So productivity losses could be easily prevented.
Were there cases of lower productivity caused by work-from-home? Probably.
Is it manageable? Definitely.
I don't buy the ego argument though.
With all the travel my staff & I did, I was managing by remote control most of the time anyway. And, my staff never questioned who was in charge.
Are there crummy managers? Of course. Companies need to start promoting better & the whole issue goes away.

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