This person isn't really making an argument for work in office, just stating that they want to hire people who will work in office.

Well that's kind of a collection of things that includes working in the office, but doesn't really provide any viewpoint at all as to why they're so comically misunderstanding how to track productivity. On my team, I want everyone working wherever they produce the best output.

Some people slack off at work. Some people slack off more at work if they're at home. If your management team isn't exclusively sourced through nepotism, they should be competent enough to track output and know who needs to be in the office or not. Sending everyone back to the office is admitting that the managers/executives are so hopelessly incompetent at knowing which of their employees actually does the work, that the only way they can get anything done is to hide the unproductive people in teams with the productive people.

I mean, this guy wants people to go to the office, I suppose for the meaningful personal interactions that might happen there, but then doesn't want workers to fully and freely express themselves?

Sounds like those workers would be better off WFH.

> * Employees are expected to bring their work self to work, not their whole self

So basically, the plot of Severance? That went well