My company has promised to do some nebulous studies about remote work and productivity and decide the WFH / back to office question based on the data, but it’s exceedingly clear from how they are talking that there will only be one conclusion possible from these “studies”: that everyone will be forced to come back to the office. They could find a 50% productivity increase but it won’t matter. All the top execs are utterly dogmatic about in-person and there can be only one conclusion possible.