The deliberate choice of Thursday over Wednesday is quite a strong indicator that even part-time remote is not an option, so you can't even just commute into the city for work and live a ways away during the rest of the time.
"We found that a Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday model encourages people to take a four day weekend."
You can fire someone for not working no matter where they're supposed to work.
I'm remote anyway but if I were to need to commute into my city office (as opposed to the nearer suburban office) two days a week, I'd probably just spring for a hotel room one night per week. I'm a 90 to 120 minute commute and that's tolerable maybe one day per week and the occasional two but not much more.
Exactly. Subtle not subtle choosing a days to really make it hard to live anywhere reasonable