Leadership forces all employees back to the office, only to have them Zoom each other from their desks: ‘I should have stayed in my sweatpants at home’

"This meeting could have been an email" has reached its final boss.It's well known that most companies don't really care about wasting their employees' time for the false sense of productivity. What does that mean? Well, it means that even if companies know that they can save valuable time by turning some meetings into simple emails or allowing employees to work from home to avoid commute time, they still prefer to waste everyone's time for the sake of false productivity."Let's sit in this meeting room to discuss something that could have been a Slack message." "You need to drive to work every day for over an hour just so you could sit on an office chair for 9 hours and do the same thing you could have done from the comfort of your own bed", all so that your boss could see your pretty face and pretend like they actually know what you're doing all day.If companies truly cared about productivity and getting work done, we know for a fact that employees would be much happier in the workplace, mostly because their workplaces would be their homes. Unless there is an actual, valid reason for someone to leave their house to work, say, they work as a pizza delivery person, working from hom…