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Re:CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Man... by hackernewds on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @11:54AM (#39192408)
perhaps the answer is not necessary, since either way the solution there is to hire managers that fit the company's design and IC's strengths vs accommodating managers with weaknesses such as being a "bad remote" managers
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Re:CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Man... by nlitened on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @12:07PM (#39192625)
I think the analogy could be as follows: arguably most software companies could be powered by a dozen of really talented senior Common Lisp programmers. However when choosing a software stack for a company you have to consider how easy it is to hire and retain such developers vs hiring hundreds of average Java or Python or Rust programmers.
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Re:CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Man... by crowcroft on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @04:47PM (#39196326)
Does this logic work in reverse, should we accommodate ICs with weak working from the office skills?

I do agree though, the most important thing is to build a team and hire people that compliment the context the business operates in, instead of trying to mold the business around the people they happen to have working at the given time.

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