The managers want you in the office so they can yell at you. They cannot do that on a zoom call as it is recorded : )
After a year of that I set the phone system to call forwarding to my home line, copied the programs to my hard drive at home, and instead offered 24 hour support. It worked great in that instance, but how does a company train a new hire? How do they develop and mentor a new hire? How does an employee working remotely compliment other work groups office based?
With employees job hopping every three years, home or remote based work should not be happening. We had a remote employee direct software licenses and numerical keys to his home. He jumped jobs and we couldn't use our plant triage programs along with some drives configuration yearly licensed keys. Our company counsel advised not to litigate it, but to spend the extra $70K for new licenses and keys.
You can't trust most people when they are not observed in the office.