One of the top concerns for managers with respect to widespread remote work was that employee productivity would suffer, in part due to the related concern that the ability of managers to oversee subordinates would be diminished if they weren’t physically in the same location.
By and large, however, companies have found that productivity hasn’t taken the major hit they had feared. However, it’s hard to deny the practical reality that it’s generally more difficult to closely supervise workers remotely than in person.
