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Before Pandemic, people self-selected into WFH/remote scenarios; if you were introverted and just wanted to focus on work, you would have taken the quiet path yourself. If your office offered it, you took it; if not you would try your best to move to job that offered it.
If you were an extrovert who gained energy from social interactions... you would never have chosen such a path, but the pandemic forced extroverts into to seclusion, and they are now stuck.
They can see the clear benefits from a WFH/ remote setup, like being able to focus on work, time/fuel savings from no commute, flexible schedule... but they want the office energy back.
Like boomers, they pine for the good-ol' days and they don't just want themselves back in office, they want the whole crowd, and to make a crowd, you need EVERY one back.
So they are miserable and trying to make us miserable too.