> I can't imagine doing that kind of multi-window parallel investigation stuff on a teeny little laptop screen with people right next to me on either side This

> I can't imagine doing that kind of multi-window parallel investigation stuff on a teeny little laptop screen with people right next to me on either side This is it. Managers (I mean non technical folk) don't understand this. They don't understand that putting people physically together won't help you solve the issue faster. This is the same mentality that believes that typing code faster or generating more code is a good thing. The kind that believes that all employees need to always be physically together for "good stuff" to happen. Sadly, they will never learn. Those managers and c-suite people will never read Rachel's post or investigate if their rto policies are necessarily good for the business. These folks are just reading numbers on a spreadsheet without fully understanding what those numbers actually mean in their business. Sadly, I don't see that ever changing because that mentality provides a comforting worldview where office gives you sense of control and having all your cows in the farm under your watchful eye (or that of your trusty shepherds) feels so intuitive that any alternatives are simply too uncomfortable to even think about.