Remote work is killing productivity, the experts and CEOs say—except it just surged the most in nearly 3 years
A lot of office time is devoted to meetings which are largely time sinks but serve for management to assert authority. Another in-office time sink is gossip and politicking. The second time-waster does not go away with work from home but is reduced.
https://fortune.com/2023/08/04/remote-work-productivity-second-quarter-gdp-growth-return-to-office/