> The announcement comes after [the company observed data from] nearly three years of experimenting with different models of hybrid and fully remote work

Data which they haven't shared. Don't you think that if it was convincing, they would gleefully publish it?

What makes you think they don't have data? It's just data they can't share because it's not morally palatable.

Does anyone actually buy data driven? Seems like a great methodology to adopt if you need to absolve yourself of responsibility for your failures. Most questions people try to apply “data driven” to are so ridiculously complex I’d need to see some incredible methodology and ground breaking understanding of human behavior to put any faith in them. There’s just too many unknowns and confounds.

Data driven is great when you’re monitoring computer performance, but that’s a domain humans have nearly built from the ground up. And even then it can still be very hard to utilize that data. Trying to apply the same to systems we barely understand seems fraught with error.

Is there a company that doesn’t fashion itself as “data driven” these days? The term lost all meaning a long time ago.