This is crab bucket thinking. Dragging people to the office doesn't improve the plight of other workers.

Keeping more people away from commutes though does reduce traffic for those who need to get around.

Central commercial real estate could actually provide useful things, rather then "places people sit at computers they could do anywhere".

Distributing the work force out means more mixing of class and profession. Service jobs can be closer to where people live because they're more distributed.