At my prior megacorp where I was a senior leader we analyzed closely remote work patterns and in office patterns and found a pronounced improvement in productiv

At my prior megacorp where I was a senior leader we analyzed closely remote work patterns and in office patterns and found a pronounced improvement in productivity and employee happiness when employees choose how to work best for themselves. However our aging senior leader declared everyone must work in the office because it’s how his career unfolded. People tried to talk him down, but he wouldn’t accept any data but doubled down hard on hand waving culture arguments. It evolved into “it’s for the children,” despite the out of college hires had done considerably better than other demographics remotely. No company has provided evidence of any efficiency gain in office, while there is plenty of evidence of gain with universal flexible work arrangements. Even Amazon, a very data driven culture, has no data to back up RTO. It’s just a gut feeling from Andy. N.b., when my prior company declared all senior leaders must work in the office 5 days a week, I did the only honorable thing and quit loudly and went to a more interesting company paying better with a more interesting role that doesn’t feel the need to control me physically. If employers value controlling my body over my contribution, they can have neither.