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Re 2: If you are dealing with anything north of 5 people any permanent decision is likely to upset a percentage of your staff. Just because some dislike your decision that that does not make it less sound.

Re 4: You have your preference as well, so does Google, IBM, Yahoo and the small law firm where I work. Everyone does when it comes to hiring.

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Re Re 2: The problem that I am seeing here is the lack of logic and thought put into the justification behind such a drastic change. Noise levels in a typical cubical environment are distracting enough to the average engineer. Same issue with the remote work policy. What it boils down to is a leader who creates "edicts" based on a personal preference or "cherry picked" facts rather than reason, logic, market research, A/B validation testing, etc.

Re 2: That was a real example, and a real reason. If you believe that it is sound logic, more power to you then.

Re 4: I am sorry, I meant to complete that sentence with "when it came to hiring execs, or buying companies".

She hired some (what I saw as) very poor execs who were once at Google, one of whom got a 60m severance package for underperformance.

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