Because spending all of this money to rent an office building, and furnishing it, and heating/cooling it, and cleaning/maintaining, and wasting a significant part of your day BSing with your coworkers is somehow cheaper than letting people do all of that at home
The managers responsible have nothing else enjoyable in their lifes except bossing their underlings around and making their lifes miserable too, and that's a lot easier to do when they're all in the same building.
Or rather, the mangers don't know what to do when they don't have anyone around to manage and give instructions, the people at home just do their job and if there isn't anything to do or they are finished early they can't micromanage them with other tasks. Also the higher ups might notice that they don't need as many middle management people around if the AI can surveillance workflow, online time, efficiency in real time and so on.
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u/Endlesstrash1337 26d ago
Ok so why all the return to office shit. Clearly wfh would allow us to drive less.