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@tiesselune Let's put most of the offices in glass towers in a central business district, or in suburban office parks that are largely inaccessible to anyone not in a car.

Now, let's put the workers in single-use-zoned residential suburbs well out of walking distance of the office.

If they're lucky, they're walking distance to good public transport. If not, they're driving.

Let's make everyone be at their desks at 9am.

Let's let them out at 5pm.

Let's make them all try to commute at the same time. If they're driving, that means maximising traffic — and air pollution.

Let's externalise the cost of those roads and public transport systems to taxpayers.

Let's not count the time they commute to and from work in their work hours.

That means we won't pay them for commute time.

When we say "productivity", we'll also exclude commute time from the equation.

So we'll look at what the underlings do during the 8 hours they're in the office, and not the full 9–10 hours (or more!) they were away from home.

Of course, we won't actually measure productivity at home vs the office. It's more of a gut feeling.

Isn't returning to the office grand?