[avocabros]

I think this observation is spot on - and you don't have to look far to understand why individual productivity != systems productivity. 100% individual utilization in a system is a negative - manufacturing companies learned this years ago and is where the principles of the toyota system/kanban/lean manufacturing/etc. rose from. The only resource that should be 100% utilized in a process is the bottleneck - and anytime anyone is interrupted to help the bottleneck, that is a net win for the company output, even if individually it feels annoying.

It's really unfortunate that it seems so many people are in the "you can pry remote work from my cold dead hands" camp that it's hard to even have a conversation that doesn't devolve into "I feel more productive remote, so you shouldn't care where I work".

[kcplate]

Definitely seems like it’s a strange hill that people are willing to die on these days.

I’m pragmatic. I’d rather have a job than look for one. So if my company decides to RTO, I am going to RTO.

[pnt12]

For some, it's a pay cut, in money and free time. It's a valid reason they'd rather change job.