Companies will of course go to hoteling to reduce office space. Several big banks do that. You don’t have a permanent cube. You reserve which cube you will be in - and you can only reserve a cube 2 weeks in advance.
Of course this begs the question of - “why come in at all then?”
Lower productivity. I think people feel their wages are not keeping up with inflation so their work pay is decreasing so they simply work less for the same amount of money to make up for it. Add to that that woke corporations no longer value employees as the bottom line is paramount, and you get no loyalty and less work/productivity, it's called quiet quitting.
To see other humans not on Zoom. Makes a big difference. Humans need humans.
Exactly.