It brought record numbers of disabled people into the workforce, too.
RTO mandates are a disaster for everyone and will lead to lower productivity and a worse economy. But Boomer MBA types absolutely fucking love to see butts in seats. It’s how they get their kicks and it’s a lot harder to torture and harass someone over Zoom. That’s what they care about in reality — it has little to nothing to do with anything else.
Others groveling is their love language. Many of them would tank their entire companies if they could get people to be subservient to them in the office. And some of them will do just that.