Depends on the company of course. In any case and at this rate it’s also power play though. Worker demands had become too much “out of line” and that creates tension. Look at Elon Musk, he is not acting very rational on the productivity / performance front. I bet that’s not even the goal there, he is a provocateur sales man. And very good at that. He also has a fragile ego and likes leverage. Very human and makes sense I guess.

Here you have a Harvard professor on another tangent:

“Doesn’t it seem silly that, in a moment of crisis during the pandemic, we all figured out how to keep working productively without all these conversations and debates, seemingly because we were just rolling up our sleeves collectively and getting work done?” Ethan Bernstein, an organizational behavior professor at Harvard Business School, asked in the Harvard Gazette last fall. “And now that we have the choice, it’s the choice that makes this hard.”

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/08/back-to-offic...