Just to get it out of the way, I'm not totally clueless, I live in the US and I know that if I quit I give up unemployment and insurance benefits but I'm curious if there's anything I'm missing.
I was hired as a remote worker during quarantine and was assured during the interview process that I would never be expected to work from an office. Recently the official company policy has changed from employees being “strongly encouraged” to work from the office to it being mandatory. I found this out two weeks ago in an email to all my coworkers from the executive in charge of my department that in two weeks (so next week) every employee would be on a hybrid remote schedule from now on. Yesterday (Friday) morning, we got another email saying they were excited to see everyone and other platitudes and then a line like “employees should expect to work from the office a minimum of 2 days a week or to submit their resignation”. My current plan is to call their bluff and do my job as normal remotely, but is there a better way to handle this?