This is quite the framing. The company gets paid for producing human value to customers, and unless you're willing to take a pay cut to work remote (oh, you are

This is quite the framing. The company gets paid for producing human value to customers, and unless you're willing to take a pay cut to work remote (oh, you aren't? I see.) the cost there is dominated by employee wages, taxes, social safety net (as meagre as it is here in the US). Sure, the office costs nonzero dollars and so does commuting - but framing it as morality is misguided. A company can o ly seek to produce customer value in a capital efficient manner, it is up to us (the customer) to value things correctly. Are you willing to do the work to drop Google services because they want to work from the office and do all that bad stuff? If you aren't, making people work from the office is the easy choice, their product gets marginally better for very low marginal costs.