That's a fair point. Depending on where you work you might have even more power than it seems at first. A friend at IBM when they said "Okay, come back to work

That's a fair point. Depending on where you work you might have even more power than it seems at first. A friend at IBM when they said "Okay, come back to work in the office" just nodded and gave positive sounding responses but never really went back to the office. Their manager decided not to push it to a point of separation. I suspect that IBM's understanding of their obligations in that situation were part of the equation.