Also cognitive skills like reading comprehension become really hard to fake when you are at home interfacing with text only. It is much easier to fake competence when you just float from meeting to meeting all day.

Y’all work in some weird places.

Large orgs have many of these people.

Yea this all screams 'I need someone to scream at'.

Was a satirical article posted here a while back about a CEO wanting his people back so he could feel powerful again, and IMO that is 99.9% of the reason for management/C-suite's push.

Management becomes redundant/useless and c-suited only have each other to boss around, and we can't have that.

Or, as my grandparents used to say 'If everyone is rich(powerful), no one is rich, and no one would do the work.'