All of that doesn’t make sense because offices are a cost paid to optimize the efficiency of labor.
Nobody would hurt labor productivity to save an office. It’s backward
Nobody would hurt labor productivity to save an office. It’s backward
It's entirely possible that the question of "labor productivity" has nothing to do with why exec wants us all back in the bullpen, where they can gleefully stare at us from inside their offices.
Really? Then why do you think that return-to-office is mandated by so many large organizations? By following that line of thinking then surely their larger footprint would yield even larger savings for work-from-home?
They give employees space in that building so that people have a dedicated space to do their work, free from outside distraction.