Kevin BeaumontGartner did a study on return to the office mandates and found they didn’t work. They aren’t the first study on this, but business leaders keep ignoring the data.
mhoye@GossiTheDog They're working exactly as intended: the felt experience of power over other people, plus layoffs.
The idea that there's a connection between productivity and shareholder value only holds in places that aren't mostly made of bullshit jobs, and I think it's generally underappreciated that the real utility of bullshit work is to disconnect labor from productivity enough to nerf the credibility of labor as an organizing force.