According to my research, the answer is, "because many executives are narcissistic clowns who see themselves as gods and so make decisions based on their warped emotional needs rather than on data and reason." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2024/10/12/b...

Executives and Research Disagree About Hybrid Work. Why?

Companies like Amazon have required a return to the office five days a week despite findings showing benefits to employers that allow some remote days.

Others have said things like this, here's another pointed example in support of your research. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Bryan Cantrill on LinkedIn: This video -- presuming that it is not absolutely sublime satire worthy of… | 18 comments

This video -- presuming that it is not absolutely sublime satire worthy of Stackswell and Co. -- is very revealing: employees are all talking about either the… | 18 comments on LinkedIn

See, also, BigLaw Executive Committees.

Did you see the Spotify will not force back to in person and the person person said (paraphrasing) “we shouldn’t hire adults and then treat them like kids”

Andy Jassky and his ilk add nothing to humanity. They treat workers and customers like garbage. If they dissappeared tomorrow, beyond family, they would leave no dent.

Thanks for reading that so I didn’t have to. Also, predictable answer.😱

Corporate real estate + managerial control + tax breaks = the only research they need

Opens article, ctrl+f "layoffs". Only sees it very briefly mentioned, and not in their list of "reasons". Closes article.

It’s a great way of shedding employees without redundancy payments

For all of their science and cold logic, these researchers can never understand the human emotion we call "collaboration", a very real thing you can quantify and not just a buzzwordy justification to do what you wanted to do to begin with.

I'd reskeet this but for the NYT link. Brilliant summary.