They are desperate to regain full control over you

The pandemic is almost over - that's what they are telling you, it must be correct!

Now that you can go back to the office and your daily activities - and since you're vaccinated already -, they want you back so they can keep dictating how you live your life.

Articles like this one are baffling because people actually read them and agree with them.

The bestselling author of “Blink” and “The Tipping Point” grew emotional and shed tears as he told the “Diary of a CEO” podcast hosted by Steven Bartlett that people need to come into the office in order to regain a “sense of belonging” and to feel part of something larger than themselves.

Here's the original article's archive so you don't give views to these lunatics: https://archive.ph/n9Zcs

If you like the people you work with, it's more fun to be around them in person, that said, they're all just friends of convenience, just like there was nothing special about your school friends because you were just stuck together in the same building for 8 hours every day. Most of your coworkers don't give a shit about you and would much rather leave or stay home to fulfill their own ambitions than make their coworkers a priority.

To that end, it's a false sense of belonging. You get purpose and meaning from the work itself. If you can have temporary friends along the way, it's just a "nice to have".

I mean, dude, there's even a copypasta about this exact topic:

Hey guys, I know I am seeing a lot of back-and-forth on this topic, but I really need to push back and raise some red flags here. Having an on-site office presence foundational to our ability to drive efficiencies in a corporate landscape. It is in our DNA. Sure, there is no 'one size fits all' or silver bullet and some are just boilerplate solutions, leveraged to the hilt and really only keeping us at a 30,000-foot-view of things. Being on-site, however, really allow us to get better granularity, find better directional-indicators, or loop back and dive deep into some critical issues on a go-forward basis.
I think if you all start spending more time in the office gain, you'll find yourself trending toward the positive, but you'll have to keep an eye on the puck. Gut through it, reduce thrash, and let's stay in lock-step on this. Yes, we will synergize!
What's the root cause of the hatred of Corporate office spaces? I'll put my layman's hat on and guess that it comes from movies such as Office Space and Dilbert cartoons. But we all know that these are fictional spaces, and real office spaces allow us to touch base in a much more efficient manner.
I have to time-box this comment, as I have a hard-stop in a moment when I will have to jump onto a call. So, just one more point that I want to cover-off on: let's socialize the idea of having more office presence and loop back to see whether we're being more impactful. From a management standpoint, I think that we can get the traction to do it.
So, net/net, ignore the naysayers, sidebar the folks that are stuck in the weeds, and don't waste cycles or bandwidth on folks that don't align strongly with this mission. Try it out, and we'll have another touch point in a little while to see if we've moved the needle. Remember, our north star hasn't changed. We're still championing our core values remotely and we will only do it better in person.
If you need me, I will be online again in a bit.

The thing is, Corpos really shot themselves in the foot with the whole "working from home" scheme during the Rona shit and now they want backsies. Well fuck that all, you should never go back to working full time at an office.

Think about it:

• Work from home:
  Wake up around 6:30, with an alarm for 6:45 in case I sleep in.
  Go outside for a walk or a run.
  Take a nice long shower, unhurried because I work from home
  Prepare breakfast
  Sit down at my desk with breakfast and coffee prepared by about 7:45 and get started with my work day

• Working in the office
  Alarm 6 AM
  Rush to shower to fix bed head
  Quickly prepare and scarf down a large breakfast so that I’m full until lunch
  Throw some leftovers into a Tupperware to bring for lunch. Not very satisfying but I can only use a microwave at work
  Get my business casual outfit on
  Commute 45 minutes to work, frustrated and angry by the time I show up in the office around 8

Fuck going into the office. Manager are making wage slaves do two days at the office per week even though they have been doing their jobs 100% remote for two years.

Yeah sorry, fuck going back to the office, corporate lizards.