As corporate cultures become more woke, fewer workers are going to buy in to any part of it. Many that appear to do will only be providing lip service.
People are also going to start to resent being lectured constantly on woke issues at these so called corporate culture events. I notice the article referenced human resource executives and their priority of maintaining organizational culture. HR managers at most big corporations are usually female and very leftist. In other words, they're the very ones you don't want determining organizational culture. Mandatory fun events where employees are prodded with woke mandates from every direction are going to be counterproductive, they're just going to result in pissed off employees that quickly tire of being lectured to.
I do believe this is much of the drive behind this.
Working from home eliminates all the casual contacts in the office that could be construed as some form of micro-aggression. A company being “woke” is potentially destroying the ‘team.’ Working from home keeps one at a safe distance from that nonsense.
This is important to understand as having a remote workforce does take a very different style of management. I suspect many of these companies have leaders who went along to get along last year, but never were able to fully adapt to the idea they couldn’t walk down the hallway to check on a project. There are tons of online project management tools. Last year I used one to write my 10 Chapter book working with editors and publishers in California and New York.