I work as a software engineer for a multi-billion dollar company. I honestly hate it but it would take a wall of text to explain all the reasons.
All the decisions about returning to the office are being made by people (literally) 9 steps above me in the org chart who work in a different city. My boss, his boss, his boss, etc all agree that returning to the office is stupid for our particular responsibilities (sit and code all day and have zoom meetings with teams in other cities) but they have no real authority or even input on the decision making process.
For the past six months or so we've had huge problems hiring new people and for the past 3 months we've had huge problems with good people quitting. I told my boss we should just pay people more because of how much better salaries had gotten in the past year. Promptly thereafter, he quit for a remote job that paid more money.
I feel like 80 percent of my coworkers are interviewing right now and I don't think anyone more than 1-2 hops above me in the org chart has the slightest clue this is going on.
I want to stick around to watch the carnage, but I am also interviewing and sitting on offers so… yeah.