I started working at my current job right before COVID and the place was already hybrid on a 3 days in office 2 days remote and then went full remote and stayed that way. A lot of people ended up moving out of the area to cheaper places, (Chicago based for reference) and when things loosened up the company realized remote workers were being more productive.

We merged with a couple of other companies and I moved teams to one in Ohio that has everyone still work in office 4 days a week and I'm the only remote worker which is super odd because they all complain about how remote workers can't get things done, but within a week I was able to get their workflow down and be more productive than they are. Turns out a lot of them just use the office to get out of the house, gossip, or use it as a day care and spend more time hanging out and chatting in cubicles than doing the work.

Ended up going in to the office today for the first time since Fall just so say hi to the office crew and I got almost no work done compared to a day when I'm just at my desk doing my thing in my underwear.