Executives want everyone back at the office. Putting aside the meaningless allusions to “collaboration,” which wasn’t happening in offices prior to Covid, they’re not entirely wrong to want people back there.
The double standard comes from the fact that executives have had access to remote work ever since laptops were first made widely available, and, true to form, have adopted an entirely different set of workplace standards for themselves, including WFH, Covid testing requirements for in-person meetings, etc.
RTO has never been about collaboration or productivity; it’s about class and control. Keep that in mind the next time you hear someone with “Chief” in their job title regurgitating stale corporate platitudes.