It's not an unreasonable assumption that innovation, specifically, thrives in a face-to-face environment, because the opportunities for random circumstantial co

It's not an unreasonable assumption that innovation, specifically, thrives in a face-to-face environment, because the opportunities for random circumstantial collisions of ideas are higher by default. That would explain the emphasis on office-based work without appealing to the terribleness of management. For most companies, most of the time, though, that's not what matters, no matter how much they might wax lyrical about it. What most companies need most of is competent execution of ideas they already have, and that's perfectly possible in a fully-remote setting in a large proportion of orgs.