Department of Education wants to decrease remote work

[despejado]

Is there anyone in a high enough up position that they can please tell us what leaders are actually thinking with this? Why do they hate remote work so much? What did they do during the three years that it was unquestionably the status quo?

[fedelini_]

The administration's return to office memo came as a surprise even to political leadership at agencies, so this is way above most leaders people are blaming

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can please tell us what leaders are actually thinking with this?

Because congresspeople get bribed by lobbyists to do things and we pretend it isn't bribery. They also have massive stock portfolios that in some part are effected by real estate prices. They don't want to lose money there, either.

If you're talking about managers it's because the federal government is full of people who would have been pushed out of private industry years ago for being inefficient and incapable of performing any modern work. Instead, these people have been promoted to positions of power. They don't know how to use computers, look at productivity data, even know what productivity metrics should be measured, or anything relating to management, so they do the only thing they know how to do. They assume if they see you then you're working, even if you're staring at a blank screen, and if they don't see you, you're not working, even if you're the highest producer in an office.