So if the employer added a reminder that “home” could be anywhere in the world, I suspect that would change a few minds. Bangalore is nice this time of year.
My company in the 80s used half of the ATT building kitty corner from the sears tower. Then it came time to move in the 90s, and they decided to purchase a whole smaller building down the road instead but instead of moving somewhere that sucks less than chicago (literally anywhere), they bought a building a few blocks down because the bigwigs thought downtown chicago was so sexy or something and the serfs would gladly spend two hours a day every day riding a train to and from the city in perpetuity. Over the years cut backs (especially in useless IT where we cut 1000 people and literally nobody noticed). As more and more accounting tasks were automated, there was more and more attrition. And more and more entire floors were shut down. Then covid happened and now we have 18 floors of ghost town. I doubt that building will ever be occupied again. It is amazing. Up to the early 90s, a suit and tie was mandatory. Then casual fridays came. Then it transitioned to business casual for men, to even jeans are ok today. May as well be on different planets