I think the huge misconception is that jobs that require specific tasks that don’t fit well in WFH means the entire job doesn’t fit. Collaborative tasks many times require in office interactions and whiteboarding. But I’d be willing to bet that out of a given week that isn’t your entire 40 hours.

Honestly I think a lot of this push is that we are finding manager roles are unnecessary. With collaboration more difficult it has become more effective to go right to the source rather than the trickle down method we used to use.