This would make sense if corporations were not predominantly comprised of middle-managers desperately clawing upward, mimicking what "the successful companies" do immediately even if it barely makes sense. This exact phenomenon happened with social distancing, the pivot to AI, the pivot to off-shore teams and H-1B hires, demanding college degrees for arbitrary reasons and so on. The reason we're discussing this to begin with is because the head of some large corporation is demanding everyone go back in time five years and commute five days a week. (Your buying power will not travel back in time, however.)
This is also yet another chapter in the book titled "Accounts, upper-management and the CEOs who whip them decide to implement worse work conditions and more hours for minimal pay to make all the white people get fed up and leave, thereby justifying to the government why the country needs to be flooded with indians who will tolerate being a slave caste for another ten-thousand years", but that's another conversation.