[GreenAlien]

I made my career with managers thinking that I could produce much better than the majority of their employees. The reality was that I would do things like: "Come in a hour before the other employees" or "work an extra hours after I got home".

In those quiet times I could accomplish more work than the 8 hours in an open office where every phone or person walking by was a distraction. Management thought I was so good, but the reality is that open offices are so inefficient they cut productivity by 80% and I worked around their inefficiently.

WFH evened the playing field for a while, because others became more efficient but the incompetence of insecure managers is reestablishing their inefficient open offices again.