>> Employees need to be on site, we’re told, because collaborating with one another has been harder to do when everyone is working from separate locations. > I

>> Employees need to be on site, we’re told, because collaborating with one another has been harder to do when everyone is working from separate locations. > I think this is true, but only if the main part of your job is collaborating eg talking to other people to reach a consensus. That is easier face to face. That's also undermined by other decisions, like offshoring and distributed teams. > The problem is that only higher up management roles are actually like that. Lower down the tree people are expected to not spend lots of time talking to each other, and instead actually produce things (code, documents, reports, emails, etc). That's not true. Maybe only "higher up management roles" are exclusively like that, but there are plenty of other roles that include a significant amount of that, or a significant amount that occurs at irregular/unplanned intervals. Also remote work is a lot more socially isolating, and I feel it makes work relationships a lot more one-dimensional an tenuous. That might be fine if you're a loner, but that's certainly not true of everyone.