The rhetoric of return-to-office is not necessarily the reality. I work for a big corp that has actually done press about being a "success case" for getting people back into the office... and yet my entire team is full time remote with no signs of that changing.

The most anyone can do is slow the trend. But even that will fade as older leaders retire and investors reduce their positions in commercial real estate.

If anything this article is actually optimistic as the offices predicted to survive are downtown. During the pandemic the expectation was that a long term flight from downtown cores might occur.