Babysitter Managers Are in Trouble and They Know It
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The "babysitter" manager clung to power as we entered the new century. As tech became more and more ubiquitous, doing business became ever more complicated. Leadership was unable to truly grasp what was happening in the trenches. The metrics of productivity became muddy, and methodologies like Agile and Scrum et al came into being. But when they were not, it actually gave the "babies" manager more ways to "squeeze" Workers have to work harder at home but get the benefits of more control over their lives.