Return to office

Concerns

• carbon footprint of travel
  • also stress footprint, especially when public transport is dealing with an incident, which is a lot of the time
• expense of owning and maintaining office
• office facilities are clinical and lowest common denominator, whereas what i have at home is tailored
  • this is not true for everyone, and remote-first is not a threat to them
  • the office isn't even necessarily well climate controlled
• offices are noisy in a way that ruins concentration
• wfh tech has existed for decades, and we may never have seen its full potential were it not for the pandemic

The real motivation

• encouraging people to leave
• narcissistic need to have rows of employees in sight
  • low trust environment
  • or pervy need to see smartly dressed young people who can't refuse
• avoid cabin fever-induced liz truss syndrome in middle management i.e. off the scale hubris in own capabilities