I hope this is generational thing. The traffic and travel is really unnecessary for most knowledge work.

I don't care about the productivity conversation, it's just logistically dumb and if there's a cost in making fewer widgets for getting rid of traffic than so be it. Dangerous, expensive, time and space consuming... It's a huge collective toll on society that robs us of quality of life and many thousands of hours.

We just shouldn't be doing it in the same way we don't toss the contents of chamber pots into the street anymore. Let's embrace the modern era.

Mandating daily travel unless it's genuinely needed to do the job is really unjustifiable.