The CEO and president of Douglas Emmett Inc., a real estate corporation worth over $3 billion and based in Santa Monica, California, said on an August 2 corporate earnings call that a recession could be “good” for the commercial real estate business “if it comes with a level of unemployment that puts employers back in the driver seat and allows them to get all their employees back into the office.” The executive, Jordan Kaplan, then repeated that “the thought would be that unemployment would be up. And therefore, employers would be in the driver seat to bring people back in the office, which is where they want them.”
Source: https://theintercept.com/2022/08/24/unemployment-recession-worker-power-douglas-emmett/
The shift to working from home has been the best thing to ever happen in my career, not only am I more productive, I'm happier overall. Screw anyone who wants to drag people back into the office.