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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by AnimalMuppet on Friday December 01, 2023 @10:17AM (#38487689)
Managers tend to be older than workers. The higher level of management, the older.

Older people are more comfortable having a face-to-face meeting rather than an online chat or video call. They're more comfortable managing people they can see in their seats, rather than having to judge only by the amount of output.

This is true even for many larger software companies.

Is this all of what's going on? Maybe not. But I suspect it's at least part of it.

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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by tessierashpool on Friday December 01, 2023 @10:40AM (#38488010)
this is just meaningless ageism. you could just as easily argue that older people benefit more from WFH, since they're more likely to have nicer places to live that are further from the city centers.
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