@1hfo nails it.
Our team(IT) was WFH for years as a standard practice because of the business continuity built into operating that way. Our hours are weird and don't make sense to have us on premises since it would just extend operating costs (ex: lighting a section of floor for one person). In previous roles I've regularly been in WF office buildings after 6 pm, it's a ghost town. There's nobody to collaborate with even if I were to go in.
Then all of a sudden new CEO and management team who instantly say, "All WFH agreements are torn up and void." No reason other than to say there's a new sheriff in town by pointing to a "Location Strategy" (possibly the d-mbest business speak I've ever heard in my two-and-a-half decade career here).
India could cover my hours you say? Then why is my shift specifically to cover the gap from the east coast going offline and India arriving in the office? They refuse to show up earlier and all of them bolt as soon as possible. They don't want to work hours that suck, either.
Watching our Wall St. executive team play pu--yfoot with their decisions is embarrassing. I thought they were supposed to be big swinging di-ks. Instead, they look like sissies in chastity. As I've been saying, management needs to sh-t or get off the pot. They continually look weaker and weaker no matter how many posts the board troll makes.