https://www.businessinsider.com/why-ceos-wont-allow-hybrid-work-echo-chambers-brigid-schulte-2024-9
Brigid Schulte, journalist, director of the Better Life Lab, and author of “Over Work,” told Business Insider that it’s because they’re operating in an “echo chamber.”
“Return to office is so based on a leader’s belief,” Schulte explained. “It has nothing to do with the evidence. It often has nothing to do with the performance and who’s a really good worker or innovative or coming up with great ideas. It all has to do with confirmation bias.”
Their resistance to new approaches is reinforced when they talk to each other and see others making declarations to the media, Schulte continued, describing that pattern as a “circular echo chamber.”
“I do worry that more are looking at the boldness of these return-to-office mandates and thinking, well, if they did it, I can,” she added.
Worsening that echo chamber structure is the fact that CEOs are “largely white men,” Schulte said.
“Many of them have either virtually no care responsibilities or have somebody else taking care of them. So they have been able to devote themselves 150% to work.”