Poor leaders will blame everything but their own failures. When was the last time Google had a coherent product vision?
Given that this guy seems to have left in 2015, it may be be more like the classic "Old Well-Off Guy Complains Youth These Days Don't Work Hard Anymore" phenomenon.
Him picking the most educated means it isn't an age/generational problem.
He could have picked the c suite. But no.
"To be fair, he has no fucking idea what he is talking about.
NVIDIA is a strong WFH culture, and we're doing just fine."
Or at least rhetorically; no idea what their actual practice is.
But considering that e.g. Apple lost important senior contributors over the return to a hybrid work model, I would not be surprised if employees with some leverage at ostensibly f2f companies were not given ongoing WfH privileges.
But hey, let’s blame it on workers that want to work from home.
Flexible in-office hours is a subset of unlimited PTO. Where there is unlimited PTO there is also flexible in-office hours by virtue, so, yes, technically you can have both. If you have unlimited PTO you can't not have flexible in-office hours.
However, if there is a flexible in-office hours policy in force, that does mean you can't have unlimited PTO. The additional restrictions placed on flexible in-office hours – those which narrow it to being a subset of unlimited PTO – would violate the grander unlimited PTO.
If an organization claims to have both a flexible in-office hours and unlimited PTO policy, there is a contradiction. While you can pretend to have both, you don't really have both. One ultimately has to supersede the other.