Paul Graham himself posts a bunch of crap himself on Twitter around why wfh is bad. I have 2 close friends that are co-founders/CEOs of big companies. One, fun

Paul Graham himself posts a bunch of crap himself on Twitter around why wfh is bad. I have 2 close friends that are co-founders/CEOs of big companies. One, funny enough, is a YC company as well. The YC is 100% remote only, the other is big on RTO and my friend has posted multiple times his strong feelings for RTO on placed like LinkedIn. Additionally, I work a decent size start up as well. A company where a couple of years ago they might have been bragging about record revenue growth during the pandemic but is now putting strict RTO policies in place. Their communication/announcements about this policy are almost comical. The messages are long and they never really articulate good reasons. They are of the flavor “research shows”, and then when people ask to see that research no one responds. I’ve genuinely tried hard to understand the RTO argument in more depth beyond the typical “relationships are harder to build remotely” or “people slack off”. I’ve asked my friend about it repeatedly, along with some of the execs where I work, on top of the numerous tweets and LinkedIn posts. I’ve tried but I’ve never really found anything substantial, I’ve never found something where I could say, “you know, I disagree with you and dislike, but you have a point”. Personally, the explanation that makes the most sense to me after all these discussions, is that it’s one of those subconscious biases that by definition they aren’t aware of. It really feels to me like employers just simply begrudge workers getting any sort of win, getting any modicum of control over how they work and more importantly where they work. That’s before going into the added leverage wfh might give people when looking for new jobs. Very much to your point - the people who feel “empty” when not in the office should figure out how to solve that problem for themselves vs trying to undo one of the very few decent things that came out of the pandemic.