@kcarruthers Very good points.

I've also wondered how much of it is also due to many (not all) bosses tending to have more extroverted personalities, with less empathy and emotional intelligence than the norm.

Extroverted because you need to schmooze your way through business deals or up the corporate ladder.

Less empathetic because ruthlessness under capitalism is a virtue, and also in intra-corporate politics.

So you have lots of mostly male, mostly white, mostly extroverted, mostly less empathetic people at the top.

And they really can't imagine how it might be preferable to work from home for someone who is more introspective/introverted.

Or neurodivergent.

Or socially anxious.

Or who has an elderly relative to look after.

Or kids to pick up from school who also need to be taken to doctor's appointments and netball practice and Auskick.

Or prefer not to constantly deal with slights and microagressions and well-meaning-but-misinformed questions and comments.

Or prefer to avoid *that* guy with his casual misogyny and general creepiness and steady stream of loud just-a-jokes.

Or who simply want to knuckle down and think and focus without distractions.

I mean, the office just works best for them, and everyone else is like them... Right?

Right?