All these “I work better from home” folks never mention how they prove it to the company.
Shouldn't their company / hiring manager have KPIs for their role and track them ?
By maintaining that job they are clearly meeting whomever's opinion of good enough to keep the job.
By the same rationale, would you agree that if a company insists on workers returning to the office, the are clearly not meeting whomever's opinion?
I think it is important for employees that want to have less surveillance put forth the effort to heavily communicate to management.
How do those in the office prove it? Are you looking at their screen/output over their shoulder? The only physically noticeable measure of "productivity" in an office is time spent at your desk. Any other measure of productivity has absolutely nothing to do with being in an office or working from home.
Thankfully in SWE it's quite easy to filter work from 'work': code conforms to the spec or it doesn't :)
Are you happy with my tickets solved, APIs built, etc? How does milling around attending meetings help you answer that? How does having me in excruciating team building sessions or Scrum meetings where I say nothing help you answer that?
If yes, let me work. If no, fire me.
This is appearing to be an industry trend as well[0] that WFH is on average more productive.
RTO has more to do with management "productivity paranoia"[1] than anything else, seemingly
[0]: https://www.vox.com/recode/23129752/work-from-home-productiv...
[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/glebtsipursky/2022/11/03/worker...
As automation becomes more common, forming relationships with colleagues and managers will become more important. As money becomes more expensive, someone, somewhere will be looking at a spreadsheet drawing a red line for who to cut. That decision won’t be made using just # of JIRA tickets closed.
Are you trolling? I'll assume honest intentions, but this is borderline flamebaiting.
By showing you built what you promised you'd build.