That would be a boon to the company tho, because they can cut off more dead weight and lower OpEx.

I think it’s more basic. Many cities rely on business/commercial real estate taxes to generate funds. Many of these governments also give tax incentives if businesses are working in the city. If the companies aren’t doing this they lose out.

Most cities cannot make up the loss of funds through residential taxes so the pressure of RTO can help ease it.

Boston is a good example of this, residential property taxes are quite low but the city has a hard time making up the difference with the loss of commercial property taxes. So there was a big push to get companies to RTO.

It’ll probably take a good 20 years before city governments are able to adapt, hopefully that means more mixed use buildings in the city core like Chicago (commercial store first level, condos/apartments above it) rather than why you commonly see across US cities (entire buildings dedicated to business).

They are a lot of times. Society is hovering it's finger over the "everyone is a contractor" button. Employment is a holdover construct of subjugation.