Why should they come in? If the job can be done from home, why should workers have to come into an office? Just to help your bottom line?
Feel free to call me a dinosaur, but - with the obvious qualifier that every business and individual is different - I don't think widespread WFH is a sustainable business model in the long run. For as long as any of us can remember, our country's economic growth has been driven by people getting up in the morning, going to their workplace, and directly interfacing with, learning from, and growing beside their peers. The cornerstone of successful business has always been forging meaningful interpersonal relationships.
Conversely, during the pandemic, we saw college graduates literally start their first day on the job pantsless at their kitchen table. There's no universe where the growth trajectory from someone working from their home over Zoom 3-5 days a week is going to come close to someone working in-office alongside people with more experience and stronger skills than they currently possess.
I don't doubt the basic job can be done from home, I do doubt that it can be done as well when managers are only interacting with their direct reports twice a month in person. Short term over the next few years, we may not see a huge difference in productivity from widespread WFH. Longer term, I think our growth as a nation stalls, GDP slows dramatically, innovation decelerates, and the overall workforce becomes dumbed down.
Others may strongly disagree, but - with AI coming for so many hard skills, and soft skills (networking, conflict resolution, collaboration) becoming increasingly important deciders for hirings and firings - I'd urge anyone in the infancy of their professional career to take every opportunity possible to get into the office, watch others work, ask questions, and offer to jump in to help. You'll get a leg up on the rest of the field. Much faster than anyone imagined, blue collar jobs are starting to look more secure long-run than the white collar jobs (five times higher unemployment claims
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/unemployment-payments-rising-five-times-194356039.html). Don't make yourself a forgettable afterthought.
All that said, there are obviously much, much larger conversations that could be had about the role of work in life, environmental impact of commuting, transportation inequality, universal basic income, broad capitalism, and all that other fun stuff. And they're good debates to have, because no one looks back on their life from their deathbed and says, "if only the GDP had increased by $2.35 trillion in 2025 instead of $2.15 trillion." Historically, they're also the types of debates that seem much more lively and important at 3.0% unemployment than 8%.
tl;dr - Short-term productivity gains from WFH will be offset by long-term economic losses. Growth and innovation don't come from people executing static tasks in a vacuum.