[Bartweiss]

Definitely - I don't think this was a good decision.

The only reason it might have looked good enough to take is that axing remote at a stroke gets pretty much everyone, good and bad. I suppose a few young/single/unemployable people might move to the office, but my memory was that Yahoo lost most everyone who was remote.

That's marginally better than the usual "make the workplace intolerable" option, where you lose exclusively the good. Of course, it's still much less good than actual dismissals, where you (hopefully) keep the good engineers in particular.