Unfortunately we live in a world where business leadership at most companies can be boiled down to "monkey see, monkey do". Leaders at mediocre companies can mi

Unfortunately we live in a world where business leadership at most companies can be boiled down to "monkey see, monkey do". Leaders at mediocre companies can mimic what great companies are doing, and usually get some percentage of the results that the great companies obtained. And, merely appearing to increase productivity is often just as valuable as actually increasing productivity, at least from the perspective of an individual manager. Forced return to office has the benefit of "everyone else is doing it" and at the same time, management can pretend like it has measurable benefits to the business, even if that runs contrary to the available evidence.