The great post-pandemic debate over remote work has (0) YIELDED surprisingly few clean answers. Employers who once confidently predicted a swift to pre-2020 routines have found their plans meeting quiet but determined resistance. Employees, for their , have discovered that the commute, the open-plan office and the regimented workday were often less essential than they had been led to believe. What has is a patchwork of compromises — hybrid schedules, reduced footprints, mandated anchor days — none of which satisfies anyone entirely, and most of which were reached by rather than design. The argument tends to divide along familiar lines. Managers fretting over productivity and culture horns with workers who value the autonomy and reclaimed time. Both sides marshal data; both sides on the evidence their opponents produce. A more useful conversation, some commentators suggest, would the question entirely: rather than asking where work happens, we might ask what conditions best the kinds of outcomes we actually care about. Productivity is not a location.