Well considering professional workers spend on average about 2 hours more per day working -- when they are home than when they are in the office (according to some surveys) --- Is it any surprise that work from home is more productive. Now the questions on better teaming, building work relationships, improving communication, enhanced sharing, etc. when everyone is remote is a different but associated issue.
Problem is compensation not keeping up w/inflation which is a bit difficult when bumping compensation increases inflation. Employees have leverage right now, all this "quiet quitting" media BS is just called doing your job and not more. All this productivity decrease is workers taking some of their compensation back via personal time or doing exactly what they're paid for.
Microsoft's CEO take in that NYT piece had the right approach. If comps can't compete w/the employees they got, tough titties, it's called capitalism.
Blame the culture war, Biden's marching the country into a ditch. Elon has the right idea, liquidate half of big techs work force.
If you think of productivity as output per unit time, this is not necessarily a productivity improvement. It seems that way if the company's accounting conveniently ignores that two hour "externality".
GWB doesn't even know what to think day to day: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...b-and-have-to-pay-for-it.298803/#post-5691701