Nice essay here for all of you who might have bosses trying to drag you back to the office.
“The reason that remote work is so threatening to a lot of corporate thinkers is that it largely devalues the middle management layer that corporate society is built on. When you’re in person, a middle manager can walk the floors, “keep an eye on people” and, in meetings, “speak for the group.” While this can happen over Zoom and Slack, it becomes significantly more apparent who actually did the work, because you can digitally evaluate where the work is coming from.”
When I left to start my own studio I was amazed at how much more productive I became out the gate. Like, easily 50-60% more got done each day without me feeling like a husk of a person.