I do enjoy when your nonsense articles appear because you seem to peddle the same topic that is just factually not correct.

Many CEOs have not debunked remote work - they have sent a clear message to their employees. That they have invested money in offices and they want them in those offices and that the ego of the CEO needs to be feed by seeing the minions in the office. Just as many CEOs have decided that remote is exactly what the company needs, but you never write articles about them because it doesn't get you the clicks.

The reason Zoom, Meta, Twitter, etc have been laying folk off boils down to two problems. The assumed the pandemic was going to be around forever and they could grow insanely fast because the 'homebound' would be a revenue stream. People are going back to offices because of out of touch CEOs and thus not using the likes of Zoom as much. Musk taking over Twitter didn't magically turn it into a revenue producing company because he killed remote work - he just did as he always does. Whatever he wants.

It might surprise you to learn that companies who don't allow remote work are also laying off employees, so it has nothing to do with being 'visible' to save your job. Disney, your beacon of sanity apparently, announced they would be laying off staff in light of dropping streaming revenue for D+.

Employees are more productive when they aren't wasting 3 hours of their lives commuting to and from work. No matter how many fluff articles are printed about the '52 minute round trip commute' being good for a person, those commutes don't exist unless you want to pay insane rent. Remote work has given people back time - to spend on hobbies, with pets, enjoying family time. Any CEO who doesn't see the benefits of that, the gift of time back to their employees, is a CEO who sits on their yacht and wonders why everyone else doesn't have a yacht.

Hybrid is the only topic in your article we can agree on, if full remote isn't an option. But I can tell you for certain that people will be dusting off their resumes only if companies think '1 day remote a week' is a valid hybrid model.

This is all from a person who has spent years managing high performing remote teams.