There's a risk of significantly upsetting the employees by discriminating against remote work, so this experiment is probably not worth trying. Another reason

There's a risk of significantly upsetting the employees by discriminating against remote work, so this experiment is probably not worth trying. Another reason it's not worth trying is that the conclusion might be already evident - many top-skilled people are leaving their jobs and taking a pay cut to work in companies that respect their work-life balance. A pay differentiation will not make the best employees self-neglect. I think the pandemic reset a lot of things, made a lot of us look at the bigger picture. Certainly not everyone, but some people probably thought they wouldn't be proud of their lives if they died of Covid when all they've achieved after school, college and uni was wage-slaving in an open office, sandwiched in between two rounds of commute each day.