Hm, I found this more in the context of the work from home situation we are in.
More than once I had a call later in the afternoon and people (explicitly one of the C-levels) were really surprised that I answered the Teams call right away, was well dressed and sitting at my desk.
Don't know what they were expecting. Motivated, happy people will work a lot from home, too, the lazy ones are lazy whether they are sitting in the office or at home...
But there's lots of "old school" leadership people in Germany, and they are really looking forward on ending WFH. For us it will happen in July, team leads can define "exceptions" where their members can stay at home but only "once a week" and not regularly.
Old habits die slow, I guess, but I think Germany needs a new leadership culture to keep up with the US et al.
More than once I had a call later in the afternoon and people (explicitly one of the C-levels) were really surprised that I answered the Teams call right away, was well dressed and sitting at my desk.
Don't know what they were expecting. Motivated, happy people will work a lot from home, too, the lazy ones are lazy whether they are sitting in the office or at home...
But there's lots of "old school" leadership people in Germany, and they are really looking forward on ending WFH. For us it will happen in July, team leads can define "exceptions" where their members can stay at home but only "once a week" and not regularly.
Old habits die slow, I guess, but I think Germany needs a new leadership culture to keep up with the US et al.