The people who want to go to the office to escape the spouse they don’t get along with are consistently the worst employees in my experience.
Take myself as an example. I live alone, in a small apartment. My home "office" is a corner of my living room. I'm not "rich" and unfortunately cannot currently get a place big enough to have a dedicated room for an office. As a result, over a long period of time of working from home I end up getting the feeling that I'm living at work. In general, I prefer a strict home-vs-work separation, so going to a physical office elsewhere to work over the longer term helps me.
Other reasons include that some other people who prefer working from an office outside their home may just in general like the in-person social aspect that comes along with it.
It's shocking to me to now see a narrative like what you're trying to push that labels people who want to go to the office as terrible people. Jeez, wow!
This is exactly why a lot of us DONT want to go back to the office - people holding their coworkers hostage because they don’t have a social life outside of work.
But what you're saying is NOT what the person I was responding to was saying, 'nor was it what I was responding to. I don't know if you read their post or not before replying to mine. Frankly, I'm not even sure if you even fully read my post if this is what you're zeroing in on ...
"Dude, you have small kids. Why are they not seeing their dad, who is working 9am-7pm or worse?"