Executives Are Now “Cranky” About An Employee “Dead Zone”

More circular BS in the hybrid vs. WFH discourse.

I guess The Wall Street Journal needs to write things that appeal to titans of, well, Wall Street — so obviously for much of the last two years, they’ve been bashing work-from-home and hybrid work in a variety of ways, desperate to get executives to keep their subscriptions by playing to their need to be deified by peons in neat little rows at their desks, even if they can only name 2 in every 10 of those peons.

Now they are bemoaning a new “employee dead zone:”

The New Workday Dead Zone When Nothing Gets Done

Here’s the funniest paragraph:

Despite the return of teeth-grinding commutes and overpriced lunches, lots of workers are sticking with the Covid-era habit of clocking out early and making it up later. By 4 p.m. on weekdays, golf courses are packed, according to a Stanford University study, as are many…