Return-to-Office Mandates degrade job satisfaction, do not improve company value (papers.ssrn.com)

- Employees' WFH environments are even more productive now than the makeshift home offices of 2020. - Managers don't impose RTO because they believe it will improve company performance, it's for the feeling of control and ease of scapegoating. - Profits and stock market valuations do not significantly improve after RTO.