> When we later asked them about their stances on hybrid and remote work, their answers didn’t correlate with how much they trusted their employees or how much they loved being around people. The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism — the tendency to be self-centered and entitled.

You know a publicly traded company has to have fiduciary responsibility to its stakeholders.

That being said it seems financially negligent to force employees back into the office if its going to cause negative productivity or as the article says "cause your star employees to quit".

> negative productivity

Every indicator says that shareholders or managers have no idea what improves or degrades productivity, unfortunately. It’s all based on vibes. Executives get the benefit of the doubt.