RTO is about control and management/owners thinking that everyone else is lazy and would not do anything if not constantly pushed. I believe that is because they are the kind of people who would need that kind of supervision.

The financial side is that making people go to work maintains value. The money you spend on lunch, travel, dry cleaning, maintenance of cars, and the increased value of property near places of business add to the ownership class’s wealth. All that money you spend traveling to/from and while you are at work goes to them. If you save that money by working from home, the wealth stays with you.

That is my “great” memory. Everyone comments on how good my memory is but I feel those hardcore moments like they just happened.

Can agree. My friend went this route a couple decades back Has huge house and kids now. The kids are skinny, but he has a few