Everybody is taking the stupid bait and arguing the wrong thing.
Companies don’t think it makes them more efficient, they don’t care about culture much, but they do care about layoffs.
This is stealth layoffs.
You get x% of people to outright quit because of the mandate.
Another y% you can “fire” for non compliance with the “return to office”
And then your layoff is a TON cheaper because none of those groups require severance, and it plays better with everyone that still works at the company because the layoff is smaller or non existent.
Everybody is taking the stupid bait and arguing the wrong thing.
Companies don’t think it makes them more efficient, they don’t care about culture much, but they do care about layoffs.
This is stealth layoffs. You get x% of people to outright quit because of the mandate. Another y% you can “fire” for non compliance with the “return to office”
And then your layoff is a TON cheaper because none of those groups require severance, and it plays better with everyone that still works at the company because the layoff is smaller or non existent.
Then you go and hire cheap wfh, or pay expensive contractors from another business owned by a CEO in your company.