[DharmaPolice]

I don't think it's a conspiracy necessarily, there are people with vested interests in returning to "normal" working conditions and yes they will encourage the view that the economy/society will collapse if we don't all go back full time.

Even when it was plain that a second/third wave was going to hit the UK the government (and elements of the press) were insisting that we should all go back to the office for the good of the economy [0]. Two months later a new lockdown was announced to prevent a "medical and moral disaster".

0 - https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/evening-standard-...