In tech many companies are looking to lay off employees to cut costs. Ending remote work is an easy way to accomplish this and not pay severance. I don’t think we’re near the end of companies demanding RTO at corporate level, but at an individual team level it will be hard to change.
I’m at a small branch of my company and different managers have set different expectations for their teams ranging from the corporate mandated 3 days per week to being full remote unless there’s some clear reason to be in office. Thankfully I’m on one of the second type of teams and upper management rarely visits our site to realize that it’s mostly empty still.