> All employee surveys are corporate theater. There's a theatrical aspect, but I assure you many companies take the surveys seriously; they just don't treat th

> All employee surveys are corporate theater. There's a theatrical aspect, but I assure you many companies take the surveys seriously; they just don't treat them like a "vote" in the way many people seem to expect. From management's perspective the surveys are trying to read the temperature of company and figure out: 1. Are there unexpected sources of pain? 2. Approximately how bad will the pain be for new policies? If some process intended (and thought) to be lightweight and cheap is called out as expensive and a major source of pain, management will probably take action. For something like ending remote work, the question is "Exactly how badly will enforcing this policy hurt us? Do we want to make that tradeoff" my guess is that if 99.9% of the company had sad Remote work was non-negotiable to them we wouldn't be reading this headline.