We are in the business of designing workplaces. We believe deeply that a well-designed office can change how people think, collaborate, and create. We have seen it happen — again and again. Which is exactly why the current wave of blunt, top-down, five-day return-to-office mandates frustrates us professionally. These policies aren't saving the office. They're sabotaging it. Not because the office doesn't have value. But because poor policy is poisoning the well for great desi