The problem is with the slackers who pretend they can WFH effectively but are constantly calling people on site to do their work for them.
I know this is a minority of people, but these are the folks who are responsible for the RTO push. The majority does a good job working from home, but Intel focuses on the minority who don't. A few users are ruining it for all of us and sadly there's nothing we can do about it.
If you want something done, you have to do it yourself is my experience while working from home. I have had wafers lost too many times when all they had to do was bag and deliver them to a lab...
I head in to the fab at 3AM to hand deliver as the 2 hours of my time coming onsite was much better than the 18 hours to rerun experiments(Especially when the team is expecting a 1 day turnaround on critical data)...
If you have people that will do reliable work for you, I would call you efficient, and I am truly jealous.
If you are working to support me, then refuse to support me, why are we paying you?
There are plenty of companies that offer fully remote jobs, go there. You’ll have to actually work so keep that in mind before leaving intel.
Your group as a whole could be slow, not delivering, so you are asked to get back to office and work together? People against returning to office only talk about themselves fine working at home (does not matter it is really so).
When they call the people on site should just tell them no. Make them do their own work. Problem solved. OP isn’t much of a problem solver, this is the real problem.