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> A lot of these younger folks pushing for full time remote at the start of their career are putting themselves into a box I don't think they fully appreciate

This 100%—I worked remotely for my first 5 years after graduating college, and I thought it was great until I went into a real office and found out what I was missing. I vowed to never work a remote job again (of course, the pandemic forced a quick end to that vow, hah.)

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And you still have that choice both under the model that the workers here are suggesting and in the greater economy.

Problem is, when you give workers a choice to come into the office, it becomes a game theory problem that ultimately results in no one coming in.

"Why come to the office if none of my team members are there?"

If you strongly believe the office is valuable, surly there are others who agree with you. Those people will be there. Everyone else can work from home.

Game theory shows that systems involving multiple people making decisions without coordination can very easily settle into subptimal equilibriums.

And that's almost certainly gonna be the case here.

What about time spent commuting?

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