> That being said, as much as I'm not a fan of this at all, it is good to see that the execs are included (or at least the email was sent to them, so I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt). Often the people at the top who are pushing for these policies don't apply the same to themselves.
I don't agree.
Speaking as a manager, management are the usually the ones who want to be in the office because our jobs require so much communication and human interaction. Given the choice, of course I'd want to have my days and days of endless meetings in a shared space where I can read body language and so forth!
It's the ICs that don't want to commute, and I completely understand that! When your job is 50-60% heads down focus work (as opposed to myself, where I'd bet it's 20% at best), going to the office kinda sucks.
So there's nothing terribly heroic about requiring execs to come in. In fact, a huge part of the reason there's a fight about remote work is because management and ICs fundamentally have a different experience of work and want/need different things.