What a bad faith article. Most of the links don’t support the claims made. > Your manager may suggest that returning to the office is imperative for the compan

What a bad faith article. Most of the links don’t support the claims made. > Your manager may suggest that returning to the office is imperative for the company’s success, workplace culture, and overall productivity. However, there’s a growing body of evidence suggesting that’s bullshit. The link under “growing body of evidence” is to a study of a 4 day work week and has nothing to do with WFH or RTO. > studies that have shown remote work is very productive The link under “remote work is very productive” says: “A study comparing productivity before, during and after an extended stint of remote work suggests information worker productivity isn't negatively impacted by remote working.” which is very different from what is implied in the text. > and RTO mandates could be causing a productivity slump This is referring to a drop in labor productivity figures post pandemic which shot up during the pandemic. It’s well known that the spike at the beginning of the pandemic and the subsequent reversion is a statistical artifact resulting from the fact that the labor force working in person jobs such as restaurant and retail workers which are lower paying reduced drastically pushing up the average productivity by reducing the number of people in the below average jobs. Once retail and restaurant workers started working again the average dropped again. The most likely reality is that we simply don’t know what works well and what doesn’t. It will take time to sort it out. But misleading screeds like this from someone whose clearly invested on one side do not help at all.