If managers treated their direct reports like human beings instead of cogs in a machine, they would know if any of them aren’t pulling their weight, regardless of whether they’re wfh or not, through the so-called “people skills” they’re supposed to have to be competent managers.

And forcing people to be “productive” every second they’re being paid is NOT the optimization they think it is.

And if a lot of your employees are being too unproductive, to the point where you can’t afford to fire all the ones you identify as unproductive, either your expectations are too high, or you’re a shitty employer who’s not doing enough to motivate your employees (either you’re not paying them enough, or you’re not creating an environment they want to work in.)