Maybe they feel hurt every time they are reminded of the empty buildings because it's a waste of money and to get everyone back wouldn't hurt anybody in their a

Maybe they feel hurt every time they are reminded of the empty buildings because it's a waste of money and to get everyone back wouldn't hurt anybody in their assessment, it's actually how it was done before and it worked well, yadda yadda, so why not. I do think the reasoning applies much better to executives, though. tl;dr human stuff