In office work is definitely a bit of a cargo cult, despite the evidence that companies did just fine. The quality of the data senior leaders typically use to

In office work is definitely a bit of a cargo cult, despite the evidence that companies did just fine. The quality of the data senior leaders typically use to make business decisions like this are usually either very poor and would never pass any kind of statistical or scientific bar, or non-existent. It's usually just a gut feeling and they roll with it. Managers just usually have no idea how to manage a remote team and go about replicating the physical office in digital form.