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[quote=Anonymous]OP claims to care that this behavior will get everyone pulled back into the office, but OP is contributing to cultural attitudes that make in-office work preferable.

The argument for remote work is that if you hire well and trust workers to get their work done, they will actually be more productive (or as productive but personally happier, which leads to retention) if they can work when and where they want. The test for this approach is to set metrics attuned to production -- is work getting done? on time? is it good? are clients happy? are employees responsive? If the answer to all of these questions are yes, then it truly does not matter if people are sitting at a desk looking at their computer screen from 9am to 6pm every day. They are meeting all their goals. The details are not important.

OP is advocating for a more rigid set of expectations where it DOES matter exactly where, when, and how you do your work. This is the argument in favor of in-person work. It assumes that people must work the same schedule and must be logged in and engaged with one another at the same time, in order for work to occur.

You can't argue for the latter scenario and then claim that you are worried about WFH being taken away. You obviously aren't committed to WFH because you have rigid expectations for how work occurs and this will always lean in favor of the office where it's easier to control that.[/quote]

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