[acconrad]

I've been remote for years even before Covid. RTO vs remote comes down to how and where you work best.

When folks want to go remote I ask them "when you were in school, did you study better in the library or at home in your bedroom?"

If they said bedroom, I assume they can work from home. If they say library, I think RTO makes more sense.

As much as I love remote, the best answer, like all things, is that best is relative to each person. What works for you doesn't work for others.

Imho the best approach to measure productivity is to see where people do their best work and support that. And if you think something works for you but it isn't (i.e., low performance rating), well... time to head into the office or find a new job. You, the individual, also have to be willing to change if you're not performing your best because you _think_ remote will work for you but in reality you're not nearly as present or productive.

Mandates, as the name implies, sort of admits that the ideal isn't best for {someone} otherwise you wouldn't need a mandate; people would naturally come back into the office if they so chose because it was best for them.