When Elon Musk sent an email the other day demanding that all his staff come back to the office or face dismissal, I saw a lot of posts on Linkedin from the anti-WFH crowd along the lines that “See, even a company as big as Tesla can't function with its staff working from home” or “Tesla only became as successful as it did because of the people who came to work”.
Then shortly afterwards Elon revealed that he's concerned about the economy and needs to lay off 10% of his staff. It's pretty clear that he issued the mandate hoping that some of his staff would choose to resign rather than return to the office.
Does anyone else find it ironic that proponents of the anti-WFH voice used this example, which was orchestrated to make people quit their jobs, to try and prove their point that everyone should return to the office?
Seems more to me like working from home was too effective and that's what most people would prefer to do. But everyone's different and adults should be given the opportunity to decide what works best for them.