What if Financial Times has a vested interest in the real estate industry, and therefore wants RTO mandates? Something something AI I mean.
Wow, took me 2 mins to scroll down to first anti-RTO comment - the sentiment is certainly shifting.
i'm glad reading your comment, because i nearly always get that feeling with FT articles, and very often with Economist patronizing subset of articles.
Yeah "work from home" largely means "work from more affordable real estate". Very very few people do I know who work from home do it for digital nomad type reasons. Everyone else is due to not being able to afford anything near the office.
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The FT columnist/reporter, primarily, is lifting up this paper <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6787638> as his newsworthy hook. But his conclusion is that "the evidence consistently shows hybrid arrangements get the best results." So I don't get the sense that he has a bias towards any specific outcome, given this kind of middle position.
And given he's the chief data reporter, it doesn't surprise me that he's looking at the academic work here.