Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says

Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by ericmay on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:09AM (#38488325)

Nobody has any numbers on what is translating to the bottom line. There aren't any facts and even then the variables will be highly dependent on person, company, situation.

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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by pgeorgi on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:46AM (#38488851)

That's not what the RTO proponents bring forward. A sincere "I prefer you to be here so that I can admire my kingdom and feel good" would be more productive than the currently preferred grasping for straws on why it's better for the bottom line:

Everybody gets a good laugh, and returns to their tasks, or coffee chats, or whatever it is that they were doing, where ever they were doing it.

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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by electrondood on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:56AM (#38488969)

I mean, companies all did WFH successfully for 3 years without issue. The bottom line is probably more affected by multimillion dollar commercial leases than C-level "feels" about productivity.

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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by bluGill on Friday December 01, 2023 @02:23PM (#38491005)

Those 3 years would different enough in important ways so you cannot look at numbers to compare before/after.

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