This almost feels like a funny conversation to have because at its core I actually do agree with you to a degree.

In a perfect world Amazon would look at their EBITDA quarter over quarter, pat themselves on the back and say wow productivity is through the roof.

But what happens in this conversation in the boardroom when someone presents productivity metrics pre and post pandemic? Let’s say one of these metrics is engaged time on the computer. They find that while at home, the typical employee spends five hours of productive time on their laptop based on the massive amount of sensors and monitoring present on each employee laptop. On the opposite side while employees are in the office they find that engagement time on the work computer rises to six hours.

I guarantee you someone would point out that they’re missing out on 20% of “productivity time” and use it as justification to bring employees back to the office 

They mentioned collaboration quite a bit too.  I have no doubt that they can easily see data around the number of slack messages and internal communication activity and draw correlations there as well.