I agree with this, but on the other hand they don't provide hard data or whether they tried to make hybrid work so once again it all sounds rather arbitrary.
I wonder if it works like that. People changed in the last 4 years. Life situations changed and are adopted to the new situation (e.g. hold are is organised on the assumption that one parent is at home, etc.) Then I guess the commute was nobody’s favourite.
I mean there are good reasons mentioned what the value is for everyone to come to work, but time has changed.
All of that worked somehow before, but that does not mean you can just swing back to that by decree and some nice food.
As someone also mentioned, no alternatives (except for exceptions like dentist appointments) are give. Is there really more value if everyone is in the office 5 days a week over 3 days ?
Is it a disadvantage if they only come 3 days a week (this definitely needs some thought so that the people who complement each other are in at the same time).
And then there are the young employees who don’t know anything else but work from home.
I guess all of this can be handled but just one bloke who is the current boss (how long will he stay) thinks it would be nicer (for him?) if everyone come in every day might not be enough.
In the end this is a major change project at least from the employees life perspective and it does not feel like it is managed as such.
It might be interesting follow up and to see how that works out.