It does make me wonder about the comments that people have made in that the effort was designed to "shed dead weight," I really don't see why those people could

It does make me wonder about the comments that people have made in that the effort was designed to "shed dead weight," I really don't see why those people couldn't be directly relieved of their duties? I'm not against companies having a preference for work-in-the-office (I prefer doing it myself), but it seems awfully dramatic vs. slowly reducing the number of people working from home.