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> My null hypothesis is that they are smart, competent people and are doing the best decision according to data they are seeing. Speaking as a senior manager a

> My null hypothesis is that they are smart, competent people and are doing the best decision according to data they are seeing. Speaking as a senior manager at a smallish software company (300 people), absolutely, decision makers are in my experience smart and competent. But what they don't do is necessarily make decisions based on data. I don't believe for a second that most RTO debates are based on meaningful measurement. As with a lot of corporate decisions, I suspect it's a lot of HIPPOs, fingers in the air, and herding behavior.

Agentlien 3y ago
When I joined my current employer the biggest drawback was that unlike my previous job they did not allow remote work. Managers were against it because they were paranoid about people slacking off. The pandemic hit, we transitioned to remote work, I was happy. Everyone quickly adapted and learned how to efficiently work from home. About two years later, two things happened: 1. Surveys and postmortems showed that remote work lead to increased employee satisfaction and productivity at our company. 2. Company leadership started talking about a mandated return to office. People of course challenged this decision, pointing to the data, and no real explanation was given. Those who wanted to returned to office, but the mandated return was indefinitely postponed and eventually silently dropped as the manager primarily pushing for a return left the company.