Browsed my linkedin feed today, and came across a post pushing for more RTO. Intrigued, I took a closer look, and realized that the OP works in CRE (big surprise) and literally cited a study that he and a co-worker performed on “the benefits of getting employees back in the office.”
With CRE making so much noise about the benefits of RTO – even going so far as to cite themselves as reliable source of measuring these benefits, how can the rest of society correct the narrative? With the amount of money in politics and the number of big industries that stand to gain from RTO (real estate, auto, insurance, oil and gas, food and beverage, hospital/medical facilities) it seems to me that these business interests of the few will always be prioritized over the interests of the many, at least in the US.
With so many potential benefits to WFH like better environmental outcomes, better overall health, and a potential fix for rent/housing in bigger cities, WFH seems like an obvious solution to many problems (in the US, at least), so it's honestly amazing to me that RTO is being pushed so hard like this.