But to Jassy, 15 months of hybrid work only demonstrated the superiority of full-time in-office collaboration. (Management professors even have a name for this: “executive nostalgia.”) Quite simply, they are convinced that having employees in the office is good for business—and that having them in the office more is even better. “These iconic companies didn’t invent themselves on Zoom.” (Even Zoom, in August 2023, told employees to come into the office two days a week.) His colleagues who have kids or who get distracted in Amazon’s open-floor-plan office tell him that their work has improved too. If remote work is such a drag, its defenders ask, then why has business been booming since the pandemic?