The idiocy of RTO and hotdesking

Lockdown accelerated a trend that had been accelerating — the move to working from home. Technology workers, long needing to work late nights and weekends to stitch together teams from time zones and locations across the globe, were finding the flexible arrangements made these demands possible.

Managers, meanwhile, found the empty desks left by those employees an irresistible temptation — why not take a page out of the Navy? Why not make those desks “hot”? And so began one of the most odious trends of modern office life.