[shusaku]

There’s no shortage of conspiracy theories online trying to explain return to office policies, when the simplest explanation “managers like being in the same room as employees” has sufficient explanatory power.

[johnnyanmac]

Do they? Even when I was in office at the tail end of COVID all my meetings were on Zoom anyway.

Regardless, such a trivial whimsy like that is a horrible way to place company wide decisions.

[immibis]

Managers like being able to see you at your desk looking busy. Otherwise they assume you're slacking off. They lack object permanence.