>Could it be that it’s not about productivity or even “culture”, but actually all about control and/or trying to justify the org’s sunk costs in office space pu

>Could it be that it’s not about productivity or even “culture”, but actually all about control and/or trying to justify the org’s sunk costs in office space purchases/leases? It could be for those reasons, or it could be for a variety of other reasons. One thing that we know that humans are really good at rationalizing irrational choices. Anecdotally, my experience seems to show that there are many relatively low-productivity people who are fooled into thinking they are being productive by scheduling meetings, having face time, overanalyzing problems without necessarily addressing them, etc. Those people also seem to be the ones who favor RTO policies. My suspicion is that RTO helps them enable those meetings, which makes them "feel" productive.