Why your bad boss will probably lose the remote-work wars

Excerpt from npr.org

My good friend has a bad boss (for obvious reasons, my friend asked me to keep both of them anonymous). His boss is an older Gen Xer who had an illustrious career in the nonprofit world and climbed the ranks to a managerial position. He’s hard-working, sharp, and exceptional at the parts of his job that don’t involve managing people. But management, unfortunately for my friend, is just not his forte.

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I could get into the gory details about why this boss is so bad. His self-absorption, his lack of mentorship, his passive aggressiveness, his calls, texts, and emails during vacation and time off, as if he’s actively protesting any semblance of a work-life balance.

But the real issue is how this boss has handled his organization’s shift to remote work. He was never cool with it, even during the height of the pandemic. He’s had a hard time letting go, trusting his employees, and giving them autonomy. He’s the type that checks to see whether your Slack work-status dot is green from 9 to 6. Even though my friend often works nights and weekends and has a solid record of getting results for his team, it doesn’t seem to matter.

His boss really cares about the theater of productivity, not just actual productivity. It’s kind of weird because his office is full of go-getters, who went to good schools, have solid resumes, work long hours and have clearly joined this organization in the first place because they’re dedicated to its mission. They don’t need a babysitter.

 

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