[defrost]

> Can you link some think tank pieces arguing against remote work?

That's not the argument I made in my comment. I simply noted that if anyone wanted to hire a group to argue for (or against) remote work then such groups already exist and have done for decades.

If there's a coordinated press placing of "back to work" articles then the starting point would be all the articles that make that case (or talk about that subject) and look for authors, their bio's, whether these are staff writer pieces (and if so whether they heavily quote "research shows" vague sources), opinion pieces, etc.

The hardest to spot and most common is staff writers who cover all manner of things (no obvious bias) who are 90% copy pasta'ing unacknowledged "press releases" "media statements" handed to them on a plate by the Institute for Lazy Reporting.

US work from home isn't an area of any interest to me and I have no particular awareness of any of the US writing on the subject.

I'm an Australian that's largely worked remote (but not always from home) since the mid 1980s, largely for transnational resource companies.

Part of my professional career did involve tracing and sourcing released information intended to sway opinion, but that was all related to mineral and energy resources.

[erwald]

You were responding to a comment saying the world is not so coordinated by giving some examples of how coordination might happen. I gave some evidence that coordination of the type you mentioned does not seem to happen, at least for the topic being discussed, suggesting that the world is indeed not so coordinated (at least in this instance).

[defrost]

> I gave some evidence that coordination of the type you mentioned

was not readily apparent to yourself.

> does not seem to happen, at least for the topic being discussed,

to the best of your ability to discern such activity, if it exists.

> suggesting that the world is indeed not so coordinated (at least in this instance).

suggesting that you were unable to find such coordination in this instance; not in any way negating the point that such agencies do exist and do take on contracts to shape a public narrative to the degree possible with the resources given.

I have no knowledge of your skill levels at picking out such media shenanigans, while they absolutely do happen in general I have no basis with which to weight your inability to find any specific evidence in this instance.

More to the dynamic of the exchange, you asked if I had any personal knowledge of US remote articles being dropped in the US public sphere to order and I responded that I have no interest in such articles in the US public sphere and thus have no such knowledge. That ancedatal singular fact has no bearing on whether such a thing is or isn't happening.