I am consistently frustrated that I don't have enough energy after work to spend time on my personal projects, so I wait for the weekend, at which point I just want to rest. Two-day weekends are not enough to balance life and work!
They'll never learn. And for any manager reading this, no, there is absolutely nothing special about your individual situation that means it wont work for you. Stop lying to yourself and your staff.
They gathered the data. They saw productivity was good.
Then they didn't adopt it full time
It makes my blood boil thinking about it.
It is similar with remote work. During covid it suddenly became possible. Productivity sometimes even increased, because people had fewer sick days (in open spaces viruses spread like wildfire). Now that covid is practically over, many companies are pushing people to return to the office. It does not matter if the team is international, so everyone only sees their colleagues on the screen. It is important for that screen to be located in the office, not at the place you choose.
Yes, life could be better, but it is not, for reasons that mostly do not make sense.
I think it's also just plain un-critical thinking, and ego. "The stats show one thing but I think that clearly cannot be true so I'm going to ignore them"
Or do you want a 4DWW with the same pay?