Honestly, the idea of forcing people to return back to the office has to be a line in the sand which we cannot capitulate on; no one wants to be forced to return to that situation if they don't want to and have not had a drop in performance.<p>Most things have shown that productivity didn't go down, in fact for some it went up even higher and that reflects itself in having more content employees who are willing to stay and take lower pay rather than just leave for a remote first company--which I'd argue needs to be the default for most tech jobs.<p>I refuse to suffer in an office just to prop up the artificially high prices of commercial real estate holders because this class of people can't seem to want to get it through their heads that WFH is a viable model that should be followed if we really care about solving climate change as well as allowing people to avoid the unnecessary burdens of having to commute to an office when we have soaring gas prices and higher costs of living.<p>Lower wages are, begrudgingly, the better alternative; but rest assure that employee will be seeking for a new remote role and will leave you without any hesitation, and you'll be lucky to get 2 weeks notices the way things are going.