[danielrpa]

Ahem, I'm an older manager and one of the biggest proponents of remote in my company, and I know many 40+ managers who are big into remote too. So your theory is wrong. More than half of my team live on different states (and even countries at one point), so even if we were not working from home, they would not be in the same office as me "collaborating".

You probably just know a bunch of bad managers that gave you the impression this is age-related. Interestingly, and this is an anecdote, it's the younger managers who usually haven't yet sorted out the control problem and are less into remote work.

[badrabbit]

I didn't mean to imply that it was because of age or that only older managers had that issue. My observation was that people who spent 10+ years managing people in the office have a hard time managing people remotely, and undesrstandablu so, that's why I suggested remote management training.