Remote work doesn't work because it crumbles their big city utopias. Without in office workers office buildings aren't needed. Commercial occupancy plummets which in turn causes residential occupancy to plummet because who the fuck wants to live in an expensive box just to be close to the farm. This causes tax revenue to plummet, retailers to close, restaurants to close, and the general downtown area to turn into a ghost towns. I am perfectly OK with return to office mandates, it gets over paid (D) no matter who out of the suburbs and back into the cities where they belong and came from.