"Everything has gone to hell and we're panicking and need to feel like we're doing something so we're calling all of our remote workers in and wasting lots of time in the process."
That's the usual reason for me having to go to the office.
"Your deployment notes were kind of long, so we didn't read them."
It's just a website that says:
"There's a production incident, we need you to come in."
aka: Please spend an hour in transport so you can spend 10 minutes fixing the issue while we breath down your neck and constantly ask stupid questions that won't help us solve anything.
"There's an all day meeting we need you in for. It's not relevant to you, and we expect you to work on other things while you are in, but we feel like its beneficial for you to be here."
"Using words to describe the problem I had would be too much trouble, it would be easier for you to drive an hour to get here so maybe you can see it if it happens again."