I cannot understand. Has the country collectively lost its mind? Yes, there are certain professions that must occasionally come into an office building like say a surgeon. Accountants, computer programmers, clerical staff, and a ton of other professions are more productive working from home. Not to mention all of the tons of gasoline, air pollution, road rage and other issues that are largely solved by simply enabling remote work.

What is driving this insanity? The gas companies?

Many of the people who RTO will just end up spending most of their day in a phone booth on a videocalls with people in other offices anyway.

Pretty rich coming from a company that's not-so-slowly outsourcing it's workforce to India.