I was working for a big non-tech financial company when covid hit. The biggest issue with going remote was this inertia in how the company worked, and a push ba

I was working for a big non-tech financial company when covid hit. The biggest issue with going remote was this inertia in how the company worked, and a push back by higher levels who did not want to change things. So you got more and more meetings and booked calendars. Even though we had more productivity as shown by number of deployments a day, the company leadership did not want to remain remote and pushed return to office. But the big problem was that as it was a campus, with teams across multiple states, if you did have a meeting there was a good chance that you had a meeting online anyways, so that aspect didn't change. The good things of in person working is comradery, problem solving speed, etc. But most large companies are not designed to work towards this in the first place.