Update Date:
July 7, 2026
Our co-founder Kruno Koprivnjak took the virtual stage at WeAreDevelopers World Congress this month to make the case that remote work isn't a perk companies are tolerating, it's a permanent shift in how power works on a team. He gets into why so many return-to-office pushes are driven by managerial psychology more than business need, and brings in Hegel and Erich Fromm to make the deeper point.
Speaker
Kruno Koprivnjak - OnsiteHub's Co-founder
Key takeaways:
- Return-to-office pushes often follow the sunk cost of a long office lease, not the actual data on how teams perform
- A lot of "return to office" arguments are really about visibility bias, managers trusting what they can see over what they can measure
- Treating people as instruments to be monitored, rather than adults to be trusted, costs companies the very thing they're trying to hold onto
- Remote work isn't a temporary accommodation. It's a structural shift in how work gets done, and it's here to stay
Watch the full talk here on WeAreDevelopers:
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