I've said it before and I'll continue to say it. The pandemic has taught me how very little C level employees bring to the table despite taking the lion share of payroll. They need to be seen pea-cocking around the office with their assistants so share holders don't wise up to just how useless they are. If the company was a healthy moose, C level employees are the fat, over-bloated ticks getting a free meals and transportation at the moose's expense and hard work.

My next conspiracy theory regarding return to office - is the mass layoffs we're seeing all over the place. For what? Some fears of a depression era recession that we've been worried about for over a year now? Inflation? We "over-hired" (how does that happen anyway)? Insert some other benign un-measureable fear here. My theory is that indsutry leaders are deliberately over-filling the candidate pool. Why? Because when people run through savings and are looking at losing their homes, they will eventually accept the "In the office full time" job (at possibly a lower salary) just to keep a roof over their families head, food in the cupboard and keep the lights on.

Granted this isn't all companies. Some have fully embraced the WFH life (mine included) and this is just how we operate now. Because why NOT? We don't even have the office space at this point for a complete return to the office. I'm super lucky that the owner of my company really listens to their employees and even did a a complete 180 on their own views from WFH. Pre pandemic they were pretty old school. No remote work. Ever. Post pandemic when it was realized we were all in it for the long haul, he noticed productivity up and even enjoyed his ability to commute, only if he wanted to. So much in fact they moved to the beach and operate from there with bi monthly visits to corporate.