Perhaps that's true, but still, it's weird to say "we don't have any way of measuring productivity based on output, so our approach is to require people to phys

Perhaps that's true, but still, it's weird to say "we don't have any way of measuring productivity based on output, so our approach is to require people to physically be in the office 40+ hours per week so that we can at least fire people who literally don't show up enough." In fact, I would call that "pretending to manage a company" more than I would call remote work "pretending to work."