A lot of times, when people discuss the phenomenon of employers ending work-from-home and try to make their employees come back to the office, people say that the motivation is to raise real estate prices.
I don’t follow the logic at all. How would doing this benefit an employer in any way?
I’m pretty sure a lot of these reasons you discard are actual reasons that in some way make sense, they’re just not the main ones. Behavior is rarely dictated by just a single reason, it’s always some kind of combination.