Not everyone works at Initech though. My office is quiet, filed with sound deadening cubical furniture (a conversation at normal speaking volumes 10 feet away is almost inaudible) and ample private meeting rooms. Lunch is rarely above $12 and is on par with or better than most of the quick serve restaurants in the area both in terms of price and quality of food. The lights are at a reasonable level and most of the lighting is natural sunlight coming in from the huge floor to ceiling windows. The commute is bearable depending on where you live and while the housing costs are definitely high closest to the office, you can still easily find large single family homes on good sized pieces of land well within budget and inside a 30 minute commute. I am indeed incredibly lucky that I work for a company that took employee comfort and experience seriously when they built this office.

I wonder how much dislike around working in offices is less because working in an office is such a terrible experience vs working in a specific office for a company that doesn't care about their employee work environment is a terrible experience. I worked at a place for a brief window that made Initech look like a 5 star hotel, and if I had to work there every day, I might hate RTO too even though I found during the pandemic I didn't like WFH nearly as much as I thought I would.

So maybe "Anyone who's in leadership and wanting their employees to RTO should be ashamed of the fact that anyone could produce a list of grievances that long about working in their office"