Those people may want to develop hobbies where they meet people who want to be around them rather than forcing their coworkers to spend hours every week commuti

Those people may want to develop hobbies where they meet people who want to be around them rather than forcing their coworkers to spend hours every week commuting so they can have work friends. You also are attempting to transparently reframe your selfish desire in terms of caring about others while spinning the rational desire to be maximize ones personal well-being as being somehow ridiculous or antisocial. It's a bad pitch and if you are going to sell it next time start with the manufacturered concern it would play better.