Nice triple negative. I think there's an element of layoff about it, but comments from ex-Yahoos about lax work culture in remote employees might well mean it's the best thing to do. Especially when your management clearly can't work well with remoters and no longer has a clear direction.

Remote work is great if there's good communication both ways. If not, it's throwing money into a bottomless pit.

It's partially a stealth layoff.