Comment by agentultra

I find WFH policies go through cycles between all-remote to always-office.

Three factors I suspect contribute to this:

1. execs/management are completely disconnected from the product of the labour they “manage.”

2. Greener-pastures effect.

3. Management attrition

Together, you have a class of people who aren’t involved in production telling everyone how to do their work. In one generation that is stuck in-office all the time they want WFH. So they work towards it and eventually we get to the pro-remote end of the cycle. Managers/execs get promoted or move on and eventually… the grass starts looking greener on the RTO side of the cycle. A new generation of managers starts working towards that.

All of this happens in the context of capital and interest rates. Lower rates and cheap property tends to favour WFH sensitive managers. High rates and expensive property favours RTO.