[Tax-chick]

Doesn’t a great deal depend on what the workers are supposed to be “producing”?

[Dilbert San Diego]

Not everyone can work from home. Depending on how your job is structured you may need to be in an office. Not everyone has a job where you exclusively sit at a computer or just talk on the phone.

[DoodleBob]

For now, let's assume the remote workers are basically white collar workers using Word, Excel, PowerPoint (which is possibly THE most IQ-reductive software ever) and maybe other software...they could be middle office people or programmers etc.

Let's say the new remote workers were processing accounts payable. The very nature of their work will be accountable and thus there isn't a NEED for the claptrap the article's author recommends. Indeed, Zoom meetings etc actually get in the way of work but reinforce the boss' self-importance.

If the work isn't like that of the payables processor, then the boss shoild have built in a way of assessing progress. BEFORE the pandemic. This also means, by proxy, the boss had a way of proving THEIR value to senior management. The fact that your people aren't centralized in the hive doesn't mean you need to suddenly call into question their private work ethic or establish busy work to show how important you are to your bosses.