people didn’t roll over, they had to be forced back to the office.

Over these last four years I saw more “we should be given the choice” and “if you work from home efficiently that’s fine but I don’t” from my colleagues & peers than making remote-only the red line it should have been for all of us. There is no choice if the line is crossed even once. The owning class didn’t have to force anything, not really. There were enough “compradors” holding the door open for them when they decided they’d played the game long enough. That’s what I mean by “rolling over”; that should not have been allowed to happen, but it was.