I’ll go one step further and say: Developers working from home have better jobs than their managers. The work/life balance, responsibility, and ratio of all that to salary, are practically off the chart compared to how most managers operate. It’s a handful of meetings a day, with hours of uninterrupted creative work, and enough leeway to do chores and errands without impacting productivity. It’s the ultimate perk.

Meanwhile, management via remote is practically no different than in-person, since virtual meetings and in-person meetings take the same time out of your day. Often, you can’t get away from your home office since you don’t get enough time between meetings to go do other stuff. And for people that are hot garbage at video conferencing and email, they tend to perform worse than in-person.

So what we’re seeing here is professional envy, twisted around as a correcting action of a sort. Keeping everyone in-office means their workday is just as fucked up as their managers.