This is only true if a large % of your employees are remote. Making exceptions for a few has no upside to hard costs. EDIT: And from my experience, 30% of peop

This is only true if a large % of your employees are remote. Making exceptions for a few has no upside to hard costs. EDIT: And from my experience, 30% of people work more productively remote, 40% about the same, 30% are less productive. That said, there are also productivity losses to in-office people when a smaller percentage work remote, especially if their jobs require frequent team interactions. For developers it is certainly doable. For other teams it takes a lot of effort for everything to even out. Some companies have figured it out, some have not.