In the most theoretical sense, perhaps it could. But that’s not how it tends to play out in reality, and it hasn’t played out that way in the past.

I think a lot of people want to treat this as an experiment - “couldn’t it work?” - but a lot of people with lived experience are saying “this policy doesn’t work, because this used to be how workplace policies were, and they had really bad side-effects.”

I just think most of us are unwilling to run the experiment again just because it should work. In practice, it does not.