Nap pods at Google's Mountain View headquarters.
Nap pods at Google's Mountain View Googleplex in 2015.
  • I have been a full-time remote worker for nearly all of my career.
  • Return-to-office mandates are not really about a productivity or better meetings.
  • They are about ensuring the company becomes the center of your life.

I am a fully remote employee and have been for almost my whole career. So I can say from experience that today's corporate return-to-office mandates are ridiculous, unnecessary and, in some instances, even cruel.