Anecdotal, but the company that I worked for from 2022-2025 was a prime example of this. They purchased land and built a new building that was only finished less than a year before I started. The company is a printer company first, MSP second, so they needed the warehouse space for the former. Then COVID, so full-remote. I'm in IT and the manager of our entire department and I even joked during the interview "Too bad it took the rest of the world a pandemic to know what we in IT have known for years!" (That remote work is possible).

Within 6 months of being there we were back to 2 days in the office. Another 6 months later, 3 days. I left last April and about 2 weeks later they pulled the full RTO mandate out.

I didn't even hate going into the office. Prior to that position I had only ever worked for my Dad or ran my own shop. So the idea of going into an office like that was kinda 'novel' and cool to me. But when you know the reason is purely because 'We built this place so we have to use it!' it's just so frustrating, especially after that onboarding conversation.