This. Most of my interactions with managers are about explaining to them why I am doing what I am doing. Once in a while, they give valuable information.
I definitely don't need to be onsite everyday to keep up-to-date with a manager. One call a week is already a luxury, some interactions via chat (where I can report some progress and stuff).
Mostly it's managers who want to see their team everyday and talk to them, I guess because it makes them feel like they are managing?
I switched from a technical position to a manager one one year ago. My team is remote mostly, myself included in different countries/continents. I do travel to the office to meet colleagues going to the office and having face-to-face time with some.
I don't need to see my team everyday but I do need to have a vision of what they are doing and busy with because we are working on a lot of different projects, pursuing sales opportunities and trying to balance the work based on skills/time available/opportunities to learn or emergencies. So I tend to do 1 team meeting weekly and weeklies with most of the time on the side at least, track project on slack/jira/crm and try to have a board view of my team while being read to deep-dive when needed.
Do I like being on site? Yes but mostly to talk with project manager and product owner, it is more easier to brainstorm/have meaningful discussions in a semi-informal setting of a coffee. For technical colleagues on my team, it is different depending on the tasks : creative/architecture/whatever or routine/operational.
Can't see my team on site everyday anyway but would prefer for some specific type of interaction.
Well that's just me trying to find my way in management so grain of salt and personal bias and imposter syndrome warning :)
I definitely don't need to be onsite everyday to keep up-to-date with a manager. One call a week is already a luxury, some interactions via chat (where I can report some progress and stuff).
Mostly it's managers who want to see their team everyday and talk to them, I guess because it makes them feel like they are managing?