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> The system isn't broken; it's working exactly as designed.

I don't follow this bit. It's worse for employees, it's worse for employers, and it's exactly as designed?

One of the weirdest things I am seeing is the pushback from employers on "Remote"

We have actual studies showing that remote workers are more productive, have higher morale, and save themselves and their company money (no commute, no office rent)

And yet employers are still doggedly determined that employees sit in their toxic offices being miserable.

Employers are worse off (lower productivity), employees are worse off (lower morale).

I'd bet that when employers that want to bring employees back to the office commission studies of the pros and cons of remote work, those studies unsurprisingly determine that remote work is worse in most ways. Things like productivity and morale are hard to measure accurately anyway, so it would be easy to slant them to fit what people want to hear.

There's that piece of news that comes up semi regularly that claims that some unnamed individual in some in unnamed country is holding three remote jobs down simultaneously.

I have expanded on this above.

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