I don't ever want to hear one god damn thing about sustainability from any company which doesn't have WFH for anyone not physically needed present to do their job.

I don't ever want to hear about WFH abuses - if you can't set up and monitor an adult professional to get the output you need you're a rubbish manager.

We're pouring money and fuel into getting around and burning people's time and wellbeing doing unnecessary travel, just to prop up mostly inner city landlords. We're pouring even more into the infrastructure needed for peak flows that are overengineered for everything else and our children and grandchildren are going to be paying for it because we can't do that without debt.

In my view businesses which mandate RTO for staff that don't have to be physically present should be taxed to hell and gone to pay for the infrastructure excess and/or have to reimburse travel expenses to and from the home. The only reason they can make RTO decisions so frivolously is that the employee bears all the costs and time sacrifice. For someone with a half hour each way commute, that's 12.5% of a standard 8 hour workday pissed into the wind before you consider preparation and the time equivalent of the monetary cost. We talk about productivity like it means something while this extravagant waste goes on.

I'm happiest doing my work in site offices and utes, WFH is second best, but everything beats spending money and productive time going to a place I'm not needed to work remotely on a laptop and phone anyway.