[salawat]

Believe it or not, once you start hanging around in management circles, you'll learn there are modes of communication that despite not involving direct exchanging of words between two individuals, nevertheless, conveys information. In fact, people are selected for the management class many times for their lack of acknowledgement of said mechanisms, as it gives everyone else the cover they need to play ignorant when, having toyed with the levers of power causing something bad to happen, they can play the ignorance card.

So no. They are not asserting that everyone has a secret meeting at midnight. They are pointing out the incentives and dependencies that lead to a pathological state; one that creates a hell of a pot of institutionsl inertia against a WFH paradigm shift.

[storafrid]

I pointed out the lack of description of those incentives.