“You don’t know your people..”

I don’t WFH anymore but my coworker went to a conference where they STRONGLY pressed everyone to bring everyone back to office. Their reasoning? “You don’t know your people. How can you create a culture if you don’t know who you hired?”

……..

Meanwhile, at my previous remote employment, I knew all of my coworkers… pretty dang well! Our CFO was FANTASTIC at getting to know us and creating a culture that was positive and something we loved.

I can almost guarantee the people who ran that conference have shitty culture and don’t know any of their employees even if they’re down the hall…