> I find it an elegant way to diffuse this proof-of-burden. I can see why. OK, let’s assume you’re right and they’re equally productive. But who actually car

> I find it an elegant way to diffuse this proof-of-burden. I can see why. OK, let’s assume you’re right and they’re equally productive. But who actually cares about productivity? Many individuals and individuals who speak for organizations say they do but their actions don’t match that. And OK, let’s say people actually care about productivity. Remote work isn’t automatically better because you guessed that the pollution savings are large. Now, you can just kind of handwave that away and say of course it’s large. But aren’t there other changes that result from remote work? How do you rank those vs. pollution and commuting time? It will be quite easy for you to win this argument when you assert that all your assumptions are correct.