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Being a good manager starts with a desire to experiment and constantly change processes to improve your team's happiness and productivity. So the 'good' manager should be able to make both work?

With RTO, however, there is A LOT more wasted time. With all that extra time walking to meetings, water cooler conversations, and the busywork of running an office I can definitely see how bad managers and employees can hide more.




> Being a good manager starts with a desire to experiment and constantly change processes to improve your team's happiness and productivity

Constantly changing processes does little to improve your team's happiness or productivity...


Why experiment when other experts have literally done the experimentation for you?

I'm thinking things like HBR, Happy@Work[1], or other academic/academic options....

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/101125187


I honestly don't know why anyone sees watercooler time or coffee kitchen time as wasted time. At least not from the first minute.

This is where basically the micromeetings happen, where social rituals and where team culture is made and lived.

There is a point of diminishing returns, but watercooler time is valuable time and what I miss most about the office.




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