>>If it worked for two years, why change?
It worked for *some* people. My experience is that productivity has gone way, way down in some companies.
Highly motivated/self-organizing people can work from home - when you let slackers work from home, next to nothing gets done, except watching lots of netflix or playing video games.
I have had to fire so many people who just couldn’t figure out how to get their work done when no one was watching.
They couldn't figure out that you basically do the same stuff and follow the same procedures that you do at the office, but on their own? Holy crap.
My experience is the opposite and now that the main office has gone to partial in-office, it's so clear that the ones in the office are far, far less productive.
I suspect that the bosses are going to try to call in the remote workers to hide how incompetent and unproductive the in-house staff is.