At time when RTO is being used as a
weapon in the culture war to browbeat ‘the libs’, this is a rare example of a
thoughtful and reasoned argument for the use of the office: high bandwidth human conversations, encourages serendipity and intensifies creative output. I might also add increases organisational resiliency and capability via osmotic information transfer. RTO has inevitably become a front in the US culture war, but we need to be careful we don’t fall into the trap that its the only thing it is.