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I agree that a lot of the pendulum swing toward on-site work is based on trust issues. Upper management simply doesn't see remote work as being legitimate, simple as that. In fairness, however, I buy some of the productivity argument in the sense that people learn a lot from being around each other. That development of tribal knowledge just can't happen via Zoom meetings and Slack messages.
It's unpopular (even though we're only 3 days a week).
But as I understand it, one of the big issues no one outside of the C-suite is discussing is the serious risk of remote employment fraud. When someone is fully remote it's pretty easy for them to hold down 2, 3 even 4 online jobs, collecting multiple paychecks. Great for them, right? They find randos on the internet to do a lot of their work for them cheaply, basically subcontracting out most of their job at each company.
But for the company, it's a huge security risk. How do you know that guy the employee basically subcontracted to on the internet is trustworthy? The employee has handed out their login credentials so that Joe Blow Rando can access their email etc. and do their job for them, even attend team meetings (off camera, obviously).
Joe Blow Rando has never had a back-ground check, and why is he willing to work for $10/hour? Is it maybe because he's being paid by North Korea or Russia or China to hack into US corporations and steal a crap-ton of confidential info?
Don't believe me? Do a quick Google search on "remote employment fraud." https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/security/remote-employment-fraud-detection.html
From what I’m seeing, the biggest tension is about autonomy. When return-to-office is framed as a mandate rather than a shared decision, people tend to feel a loss of trust. The organizations navigating it best seem to be the ones explaining the “why” clearly and allowing some flexibility instead of defaulting to control.