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Companies will force their employees back in person. Already seeing it happen.

Companies will have power to do this in a downturn.

To what benefit though? Surely they're not better off by having to pay power/water costs in the office when people come back, right?

They'll crush employee moral with return to office and blow up productive teams as the technical leaders leave. They'll say to their shareholders they are trying to downsize but they'll be left with an unproductive shell of mediocre/bad unhappy workers.

Seeing this here at my work. Everyone good left. Talking about technically excellent peer leaders making 180k but providing millions in value.

Yes, that's the likely outcome, but what's the intended outcome? What's the steelman argument for making people come back to an office they'll have to pay bills for?

Really depends on the nature of the work, I'd say on the order of at least 90% of my friends in the tech industry are making the "work from home benefit" a line in the sand.

And honestly, they've got the collective clout to force the issue.

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