My company made a big push for moving everyone in person last year as long as they were within an hour and a half of one of the offices. Between the 8 people in my department and 12 in another department I work with a lot, this affected no one. Even if it did, my department would only end up with 2 people in the same office, and they have relatively separate jobs.

They were asked several months after the mandate if there was any noticeable or quantifiable increase in productivity, moral, etc… ofc there wasn’t but they said they “felt like it was better” . They also mandated that all new hires will be in person at one specific office… The office that they paid for a very large extension to be built at just before covid and just got completed last year. Go figure.

It was never about productivity, it was always about useless managers needing to act important, and property owners keeping their property value.