For decades there are jobs where employees have said to their employer 'why do I need to come to work and sit in this office all day, why can't I work from home' and the employer says 'it is how things have awlays been done' and yes, that is how it has always been done with employers finding excuse after excuse why their employee's cannot work from home because there was no event that allowed employees to put their work from home theories to the test until recently, the event being the pandemic.
Governments around the world forced lockdowns on it's people, companies were forced to close but jobs that were office based, suddenly these employers bent over backwards to get these office based employees to work from home, something the employer(s) previously made excuse after excuse that is was not possible or feasible to do. Now they were going out of their way to get their office based employees to be able to work from home.
Now things have started to ease off, employers are now asking their office based employees to come back into the office and these employees are asking why?. If they have been working from home for the past two years it shows that their office based work can actually be done from home. Now many employees are telling their employer to justify why they are needed back in the workplace when it has been proven they can do the work just as easy from home and as we are finding out, the employers cannot justify it with the result being office based employees resigning and going to work for some who does allow WFH (Working from home).
Not everyone wants to go back to working in the office and they should not be forced to if it as been proven they can do their job from home. Those that want to go back into the workplace, fine, allow them but allow others to WFH as well. Do not force everyone to go back into the workplace just because that is how it has always been.