I'm sorry but any return to the office demand needs to come with a commiserate raise for increased costs.
Yeah I think it actually works the other way. Like Dan_D says, "In office" is (or at least was) the standard, if you want to work outside of that, the company has to do stuff above and beyond "the standard" to support that.
You, as an employee, won't have to commute (both time and money right there) and gain a lot more flexibility in your schedule - among other intangibles. Sure, there are some cons as well, but I think most companies are going to see that as the employee needing to give up some pay if they want to remain W@H, rather than getting extra pay to come back to the office.
That isn't to say that some workplaces may be set up nearly entirely virtually and accommodating to WFH - but I think for most of the people who started work prior to the pandemic that isn't the case.
I say all this - I've enjoyed greatly working from home. I'm lucky to be able to continue to do so for the most part. That said, if my company tells me I need to be somewhere, I'm there. As long as my work gets done well, they don't ask too many questions or make too many extraneous demands.
I feel zero sympathy for the folks at Apple complaining about this. If they feel that strongly about it, I'm sure there are dozens of other tech jobs hiring. It's not like Apple is forcing them into unpaid overtime in a sweat shop.
