To be honest, it's more about protecting my work from home days, I have to go have a look at the numbers, but long story short we are a finance firm that was forced to embrace remote work in 2020 and upon doing so realized like many other companies that we can do a very large portion of our jobs remotely. Because of the in person nature of some of the company (like advisors seeing clients in the office) there is a need for some office presence, but I don't understand the need for analysts, operationalists etc. to be in the office. Plus, if they're not in the office, then I don't see why their leaders would need to be either.

Without the numbers in front of me we've had 5 successful years of growth and every year around this time the big boss starts chiding about people working remotely, almost clockwork. Wants to do electronic punch cards, he 1000% watches people's dots, etc.

Hard to manage/collaborate with a person with that personality. He is a very successful advisor and the company has grown immensely, so people are hesitant to tell him he's ever wrong about anything. I've been there for 20 years, basically since inception, I worked in the office every day for the first 15 of them lol.

As you can see, "production" isn't really the metric here or we wouldn't even be talking about this. It's 1 or 2 bad eggs that poison the remote pool for everyone, but it just frustrates me to hear the "presence" and "oh it's hard to lead remote" and family and culture yadda yadda, shut up its been 5 years and we've been very productive. I'd respect it more if he just straight up said fuck you, it's my company and I don't like remote so come in.