Agreed, but if the evidence is from some research company notorious for promoting in-office culture will it really matter? I'm sure evidence equally exists for in-office and remote work, it really is just a preference. Personally.. I think employees that are independent in making their own decisions produce better work and are more passionate about the company they work for. I don't think Musk is looking for passion, he is looking for drones that will ignore his childish antics and don't question the ethics of what they are being asked.
Umm… how about the entirety of technological progress and human civilization as evidence? You are aware that we worked together in offices until 2 years ago, right?
Heard of the iPhone?
Or the internet?
What about life saving medical equipment?
These things were all developed by people working together in person.
To pretend there’s no evidence to back up a pro-office claim is to pretend reality didn’t exist until March 2020.
They're looking for evidence such as employee surveys - rather than evidence such as Apple executives looking at productivity data and then recalling employees back to office.
Did software quality dropped significantly in last 2 years?
Yes, to me. As an Apple user, Apple software quality has dropped significantly in the last 2 years.
I’ve worked from home for 5 years and I don’t want to go back, but I recognise it’s easier to push devs to be more productive while at office.
You're probably one of the few disciplined enough to be allowed to permanently work from home, before covid. After covid, everyone got to work from home, without proving that they could and should.