The share of workers being called back to the office has flatlined, suggesting remote work is an entrenched feature of the U.S. labor market.

Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why::The share of workers being called back to the office has flatlined, suggesting remote work is an entrenched feature of the U.S. labor market.

  • nfh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Thanks to Goodhart’s Law, that doesn’t work. Any number used as a performance target ceases to be a useful measure, because people minmax them. You need to be able to look at a feature in a system, and evaluate if they completed it in an amount of time commensurate with their experience.

    You need to think of productivity more abstractly, and have a lot of relevant expertise to assess it. Good management is hard, basically.