I guess that's because it's lazy and the least amount of effort for the management, but most amount of effort for the numerous staff under them. That makes it

I guess that's because it's lazy and the least amount of effort for the management, but most amount of effort for the numerous staff under them. That makes it your problem instead of management's problem, it's basically telling staff they don't care about their social/personal wellbeing indirectly and they don't mind making problems for many people if it solves 1 of their own. This would be reading between the lines on a job spec: "company has a great work from home ethic, but requires you to be in 3 days a week"