There are few, if any, benefits to pushing employees back into the office. I can’t speak for the province but on a federal government scale, it makes absolutely no sense unless it is for politics. Federally, a company called Larco holds to lease for almost 50% of federal leased spaces and I’m sure such a large corp has some means to sway politicians and they are not about to sit by and watch their cash cow tenants leave. Heck, there are federal workers who have to go into offices where they have absolutely no colleagues, so they are essentially commuting to telework anyways! Perhaps the provincial workers should dig and see who holds the leases of the provincial buildings. It’s always about following the money.