Yes, this is undoubtedly also a factor. Cities offer incentives to these large companies to open offices because they have an impact on their surroundings (see [1]). Workers support surrounding businesses; with the workers at home, these businesses must surely struggle. I can't imagine that the cities are not putting pressure on the large companies to bring workers back to the offices.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/heres-what...

> There are a lot of positives with working from home but dont forget about the wider repercussions

The issue I have with that type of argument is you're moralising on causing harm to one group of people to limit harm to another group.

Who gets to decide how do do that?

And then you could also moralise by saying the commuting causes huge amounts of pollutants which cause actual harm to people's health. And the stress of the commute. And the lack of family time. Etc.

Wouldn't opportunities arise to where people live instead?

Things would just not be as concentrated in the areas surrounding commercial buildings.

But why is that my problem? The restaurants that are closer to me will get more of my business as will closer businesses to me. Of course some will get hurt and some will get helped, that’s just economics.