Except every study done since the pandemic has shown no effect on productivity from remote work, yet somehow every thread on this is filled with totally real stories about someone they know who doesn't work.
Maybe all the big companies have measured and all concluded that on average WFH is less productive.
Individual productivity of office workers is nearly impossible to properly measure but aggregate productivity is easier though certainly far from perfect.
They say they don't have it, but tell people to do it anyway.
https://fortune.com/2023/08/03/amazon-svp-mike-hopkins-offic...
Because they haven't. Again, every study on this issue hasn't shown a drop in productivity.
>Maybe all the big companies have measured and all concluded that on average WFH is less productive.
And yet curiously neither the companies themselves nor any outside actor has been able to produce any of those measurements supporting such conclusion after years of trying.
I guess every company, government agency, and private entity in the world are all colluding to hide the evidence of lower WFH productivity despite desperately, desperately wanting to show that that's the case to support their RTO demands. Who can stop this nefarious conspiracy?
Why is it so hard to believe that people like me exist? And no, it's not because I like to bug my coworkers or that I haven't considered improving my tooling or home office. At this point in my career, with my personality and demeanor, I get a lot of work done at the office, without the misery of trying to force myself to focus and be productive like I do when I'm at home.
I'm hoping these things self-select to a happy equilibrium. I'll fill in the folks that left due to RTO, and they can fill in for my company that has a hard time finding talent in a 2nd or 3rd tier city?