It must have been sh1t data then if you can use that data to impose the same policy on all people.

And yes, I can believe that. With few exceptions, the execs with power are focused on sales. They couldn't give a sh!t about WFH. In fact, the reason this is probably an issue at all is because one too many of these same execs got p!ssed that they had no one to turn to help change an email setting or a printer cartridge and they had no idea how to do it. Not knowing sh!t gets old real quick (translation: "inefficient working practice which we need to do something about").

But I'm not bitter.

If they have data, share it, in the absence of said data we can only assume it's poppycock. Exec teams do that all the time, work on feel, why should we believe it's any different here?

Of course data was used, but you may have the order of operations wrong; execs often make the decision before the data.