[danaris]

> I assume he’s got either direct or indirect links to commercial realestate; as an owner or investor or something else.

This isn't necessarily the case.

Most of the people calling for an end to remote work do not, I suspect, fall into this category—they're managers and execs of all kinds of companies.

What they get out of it isn't more money. It's more control. It's a return to a world where "verify by eye that the employee has their butt in their seat" is an acceptable method of "managing". It's a validation of their worldview that employees are all lazy slackers who are constantly looking for ways to defraud the company.

And underlying all of that, it's simply a return to the world they knew before. This new world, where workers get to work remotely and be responsible for themselves, is Different, and therefore Confusing and/or Scary.

[slenk]

And trusting your employees to be adults takes away a lot of those pointless middle-management positions