[thegrim22]

I know it was only one piece of the article that talks about RTO, but as an aside, I don't think I've ever once in my life, in person or online, seen someone arguing for remote work that provided even a single piece of data, a single number, to back up their assertions. Their arguments instead just presuppose that RTO is awful and remote work is amazing, as if everyone "just knows" it. And apparently everybody that's involved with RTO is supposedly just a complete idiot that doesn't know anything about their business, or, as hinted at in the article, they're involved in some sort of grand conspiracy to force an "ineffective" RTO on workers for conspiratorial reasons.

[kaoD]

No-RTO is the workers finally realizing they have actual power over management (thanks COVID!) We don't need to provide any numbers to the business because we don't care about the business when thinking about RTO. It's for us. Our lives. Not for the business. If anything, it's the business who has to provide numbers to convince us to go back.

So we just need to refuse RTO. Fire us if your really want to. We'll move to your competitor and the numbers will speak for themselves. We might be wrong and we might be back to the office if you can crush your competitors with the benefits of RTO even with all that talent lost.

[gverrilla]

perhaps common 1-2 hours commute is data enough

[chasd00]

Yeah commute alone is reason enough to go remote. I have no problem with chat and conf calls. I’m routinely working with offshore teams and others spread all over the US anyway. Working remote is no different than in office I just don’t have to drive and fight traffic to get there.