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People ascribe all kinds of bad motivations (ego, stupidity, etc) to execs who want a return to office but there's a much more obvious and reasonable explanation - if your job consists of sitting in meetings all day, work is much, much more enjoyable if you're in office.

No amount of money (that anyone would be willing to pay me) could get me to sit on Zoom all day.

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Except that in any size of company, your meetings are going to be conference/video calls (at least for some of the participants) anyway. Fortunately, I'm mostly not but a lot of the people I work with are on video calls most of the day.

I'd rather solve this problem by organizing the work day so that it's not meetings all day long, rather than requiring people to go to the office to waste time in presence.

Meetings all day is the job for execs, though. That's why they all favor return to office.

Really? They don't have anything better to do? What a poor career choice! In my naivety I had assumed that an exec's job was to help a company run smooth, and instead they have to sit through meetings all day long. Life is really hard on some people...

> if your job consists of sitting in meetings all day, work is much, much more enjoyable if you're in office.

But is that someone else's problem?

Given that the people who sit in meetings all day are also the ones who have most of the power, probably yes.

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