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Sure, but if grown up adults need to be in the office with someone watching over their shoulder and micromanaging them to make sure they get their work done on time and aren't slacking off, maybe you hired the wrong people or you're bad at managing.

You can motivate and manage people effectively even remotely if you do it right, and you can also catch slackers remotely as well since all these daily standup meetings and SW tools devs are using give you a good insight into who's making progress and who's not.

If you can't manage people remotely (provided they're also of the same culture and Time zone) then you probably can't manage them correctly in the office as well.




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