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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a manager in a federal office, it’s much easier to supervise people I’m person. All of the mentorship and relationship building happens in person, as well as most of the effective collaboration. New young people seem to be coming and going from our agency very quickly because they have no connection to what we do from home. I’m ok with a hybrid arrangement because I understand that everyone hates the commute, but I would prefer around 3 days a week together in person.[/quote]

How do you supervise and what are you supervising? In a professional job, you shouldn't have to walk around and see that people are at their desks at their computer to "supervise." I've known supervisors whose idea of managing is just walking around and shouting "break time is over" and going into the director's office to BS.

I've had in person supervisors who just rubber stamped my work without reading it. I could walk into their office at anytime and discuss but the discussion was never any help - I'd lay out the two options I was debating, and they'd say I had good judgment and whatever I did would be fine. I actually wished I'd had more feedback.

I also have, currently, a remote supervisor who reads and analyzes my work, marks it with track changes, adds meaningful comments, and is available to discuss the substance over the phone or Zoom. They understand what I'm doing very well and they give me interesting work and they are responsive when I have questions and I'm on deadline. Sometimes they'll answer my questions with more questions in a Socratic method kind of way. I think this is an excellent way to supervise. We've never met in person and they understand I'm an adult so if I go idle on Teams I am reading documents or on the phone.[/quote]

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