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Perhaps culture and productivity is actually better in office. I'm remote and would like to keep it that way, but that's also an hypothesis to consider (Occam's razor). These big corps claim they're data driven, so perhaps that's what their data is saying.

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Truth it, it depends on the type of person, type of team, type of work and most importantly trust.

There are definitely lots of great & honest homeworkers but also know plenty who go on dates or work on their startups secretly.

Why would all of the forced RTO companies not share the golden data that proves their point?

What's the upside for them?

To look like they are making a data driven decision? That this is not based on wanting to see butts in chairs?

I work less at home. Too many distractions.

I'm the opposite. on my last team, about half were out of town and half were in office. Everyone was very productive.

I work less in the office. Too many distractions.

Also the corporate productivity difference is only marginally better, but I get to spend significant time surrounded by my wife and children.

I will not be in my deathbed wishing I spent less time with my loved ones. It’s interesting how RTO mandates reveal the priorities of those around us.

I work more at home, no distractions. Oh and a desk rather than going to get one. And a couple of monitors. And no need for headphones in a meeting.

Your inability to separate work from non work is your problem.

Not only do I work less in the office - the quality of the work I produce is lower. I'm more stressed out about things that I no longer have the time for because I'm wasting time commuting to work when I could be taking care of chores and errands or myself.

If I ever have to waste 5 more minutes over water cooler chat about what someone did the last weekend I'm putting in my 2 weeks notice. I don't go to work to socialize and as far as I can tell that is the real reason people want to RTO. They quite literally don't know how to socialize outside of work and bugging their coworkers so want everyone to RTO so they have people to chat with who have no choice but to pretend to be listening and be courteous with them.

I actually have no idea if I would work better at the office. I work quite well at home, and it's certainly possible to slack at the office. Nobody is behind your back and there are distractions there too.

I would benefit for more interactions with my colleagues, that's certain. And I think I would have a better separation between work and life if I was working from the office.

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