Before I retired our teams were all over the country.
In my office I was the only person on those teams.
Going to the office was totally useless—and meant irritating interruptions from co-workers who had nothing to do with our projects.
The office was loud and a horrible place to work.
The hour long commute was a total waste of my time—and added significant stress to my life.
Many operations work that way today.
Subject matter experts are spread around the country—it is crazy to try to cram them into local offices that are irrelevant to their activities.
My experience too. We had office all over the planet and few people were at my location.