For my first full time job, I was a junior sysadmin. My toolset had to include LOAF floppies, one FREEDOS floppy, and a bent paper clip. I had an office. My office. With a door. Since then, every advance in my career raised my skill level, raised my pay, and shrank my office. First came the open office plan. Then came hot desks. Now I'm all-remote, and I mostly float around libraries and cafes when I'm not zooming.

The people making these RTO demands should remember they are demanding people meet in person in what is little more than a set of hot desks dedicated to one company. It's really demoralizing to have to come to work to such an environment where you can't even put a backpack's worth of things on a desk and leave them there at 5 PM.

If the managers making these demands vacate their own dedicated offices and go hotdesk for a while, they'd realize why there's so much pushback on RTO.