Probably because management considered remote onboarding as a temporary thing that would be over in three weeks for the past three years, instead of the new nor

Probably because management considered remote onboarding as a temporary thing that would be over in three weeks for the past three years, instead of the new normal that would require more thought to how to onboard remotely effectively. There's been plenty of companies that were mainly remote long before the pandemic as well. Even in government sometimes employees working on sensitive info get a scif installed in their basement. If it didn't work people wouldn't do it. Sometimes its nice to also think about the personal benefits to the employee to their life outside of the work, versus the companies absolute bottom line all the time.