[Schattenbaer]

Only tangentially related, but when you have (a) a company that might want to lay off a percentage of workers and (b) don't want the negative press of said layoffs, then a return-to-the-office policy is an effective tool in the corporate toolbelt.

[dfxm12]

For any firm large enough that layoffs would bring negative press, so did the thinly veiled "return to work" scheme. I don't think it was so effective.