This "conversation" needs to change to overtly and before other considerations, address the fact that it's not the office, even, that many people hate; it's th

This "conversation" needs to change to overtly and before other considerations, address the fact that it's not the office, even, that many people hate; it's the commute. That is true for my family. I'm cool being in-office to see my co-workers, at least on a flexible basis; it's the commute that is a MFPITA. This goes ten-fold for my wife whose company is notoriously backward wrt WFH policy and has been kicking and screaming to get people back to giving up hours a day to create that management-reassuring "buzz of the busy bees" so satisfying to extroverted social-reward-driven Type A types.