Fkd up real estate investments, or long term rentals, and to make useless managers feel that they are local kings, and make them look like if they are needed (but not at all, these arr the bullshit jobs).

My productivity is definitely lower if im working from office, also i feel much worse, by the look and feel of the office, and the things around it, but especially the +3 hours of commute (preparations, actual commute) on each office day.

At my company 2 wfo days are mandatory now (1 year ago it was 1, and until 2023 spring i worked full remotely since i joined to company in fall of 2021), now i avoid some wfo days telling real, or not so real sicknesses, but if they raise the wfo days count, i'll definitely update my linkedin profile advertising, that im looking for new "adventures", pointing out that i dont want to work from office (and for morgen slanty to GTFO, dont even call me 🤣)

Money

For them happiness equals unexploited potential. Only when workers are depressed and hate their job do execs know for certain there is not much more extract. In other words they‘d rather actively decrease productivity and revenue than let people be happy while not knowing for certain if they‘re fully exploited already. Because if they are, then why would they be so damn happy?

The ironic part is I know people who want to return to the office but can't due to other reasons.

Because they get huge tax breaks from the government for keeping a minimum occupancy in their buildings. The government wants all that sales tax from lunches, toll fees, parking fees, speeding tickets, and all of the other income that it receives at your expense. They are colluding with the government to profit from you.