My experience has been a bit weird since it is backwards of what most have experienced. For the five years leading up to the pandemic, our senior leadership had

My experience has been a bit weird since it is backwards of what most have experienced. For the five years leading up to the pandemic, our senior leadership had been pushing WFH heavily as we were shedding real estate and saving lots from it. Being in a legacy business with lots of aging physical infrastructure, there were lots of opportunities for downsizing infrastructure and our office downsizing just sort of piggybacked on that. The savings were a major part of the CEO's message to the Board each quarter, which seemed to make them and the investors happy. Our division head however hated not being able to come into the office and see "my guys". We were mostly clustered in two metro areas with a few team members in random locations, but the division head was in our metro so we sometimes would meet up for dinner. Each time he'd start talking about having us RTO, even though our last office had been completely subleased to someone else. According to coworkers who were there longer than me, when we did have an office, the division head was only there one or two days a week. He liked parachuting in, doing the rounds, and then head back to his house in the mountains where he did much of his work (90% meetings) remotely. Eventually he was pushed out of the company though I don't know if his pushes on the CEO to do RTO was part of that or not but I assume their visions for the company simply were mismatched. I have since left the company but they did well during the pandemic because the company was already on a remote first path. Wouldn't surprise me if they were able to take advantage of the situation and dump some more leases though I'd guess subleases probably are difficult to arrange now.