I think it's more about local government budgets, decline of tax revenue, and everything that comes with workers (and then area small businesses) leaving en masse. The corps are implementing proxy policy because of pressure from governments panicking at what happens when WFH continues.
This is almost certainly the actual topic, I agree. And don’t disagree it’s a serious point.
I have no respect for the RTO side of the argument though bc it’s proxied by a corp using scummy arguments. It is obviously about 1950’s org culture and extroverts who buy into it (who cares if this survives), short term possibly cataclysmic decline of cities (this certainly should concern everyone), and generally rejiggering a large part of how the US works due to the WFH diaspora (this is just a slice of what the internet is doing overall, can’t fight it).
Instead of leadership, we get corps doing proxy messaging. And the last several years showed they don’t deserve to be listened to IMO. I will listen to the first public service leader or newspaper who frames it in an honest way. I was told the environment matters expect for when it’s the entire country commuting to the office.
