Re: Scheme
If they are jobs that need to be done from the office, or which are vastly easier to do from an office environment, then the impetus to do them from the office will be from the people doing them. No need from a top-down edict.
Such edicts only indicate that there is no need for office presence, otherwise they wouldn't need to be making them...
Similarly, if there are jobs that can only be done from an office, and which are vital for the functioning of the organisation, then that would have been an exception during lockdown, and would have been happening, and still will be. For instance, an ambulance driver can't work from home, and never did, so the "some jobs have to be done from the office" argument is a bit hollow. What is particularly disingenuous is where you see this argument used as a justification for getting everyone back into office buildings, often at a hit to actual productivity.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
