I guess it’s possible. It just seems a reach for people to think that’s the /only/ reason.
Honestly. I think people would be more successful if they actually tried to understand some of the nuance and understand what things are better in person than remote. Then try to solve for those things, rather than just saying “remote is better in every way” like everyone seems to think.
Agreed with this. But that’s part of the problem. It takes effort to foster those conversations and “casual working meetings” like you stated. Many managers that push for back to office just don’t do that.
We are going through a transition where we need to change how we work top to bottom.
Those who are less adaptable will push for the older way of doing things because the older way is more efficient for THEM. They aren’t wrong, they just don’t know they would be more successful if they changes how they worked.
Unless he doesn’t believe zoom is intended to solve the problem of remote work.
There’s a difference in scale of making a zoom call occasionally to add flexibility and having your entire business run off zoom for its day to day. Some things you’d want to solve for in the second but not the first case: Remote learning, team building events, snack distribution.
Offloading the entire office experience to remote isn’t as easy as just using a video conferencing app.
Oblivion remastered on steam deck has been a lot of nostalgic fun for me.