The topic has become highly political because other people going to the office or speaking positively about offices threatens remote work for the rest.

Same thing that happened with masks, no one was ok with someone else choosing differently because the bigger group would force their way over the smaller group.

With masks though people wearing masks didn't at all affect the people not wearing them. Remote work is tough because either:

* You want to be in-person: If everyone is remote there's no point in going in.

* You want to be remote: If everyone is in-person, you're at a career disadvantage.

What you're saying about masks isn't true. Unless they're N95 or similar masks, people with masks on were doing more to protect others than themselves. Cloth masks don't really impede the virus from floating in, but they do massively reduce how far expelled aerosols fly.

If that were true it'd be visible in the data but it's not. Masks did nothing yet a vocal minority forced everyone else to wear them and refused to accept the evidence it was pointless and harmful.

> With masks though people wearing masks didn't at all affect the people not wearing them.

People didn't just choose to peacefully wear masks though. There was a large militant group that pushed for mandates to force everybody else to also wear masks.

No people most certainly did. I live in an area where covid vaccine fears, ivermectin, all sorts of crazy stuff was routine convo but all businesses were okay with me wearing a mask. They rolled their eyes but accommodated me. the “militant” group was definitely not pro-mask. Also, it’s a facemask. Decent people would take a small hit to not get others sick. But it was more profitable to deny, sow doubt and stomp around screaming freedom.

In some way that process is called Democracy :) but also mob rule :)

In democracy it depends which side can found a louder expert. Either it's human right to work from home and everybody must adhere. Or human right to see coworkers and everybody must go to offices.

What is a human right is a majority decision right?

Didn’t see a referendum for appending human rights. Recently it seems like fringe organizations declaring something a human right is a way to try to override democratical process.