> Some of this can probably be mitigated (and large companies always had people in a lot of different locations). They always have, but I think the key mistake

> Some of this can probably be mitigated (and large companies always had people in a lot of different locations). They always have, but I think the key mistake is smearing a single team across different locations. Once you do that, or start doing that habitually, you've completely undermined whatever benefits you think your organization will get from RTO. IMHO, if you really want to RTO, you need to co-locate all team members (and reorganize teams to make that happen), and ideally co-locate closely collaborating teams.