I'm in the let it blow over camp and I'm having the same issues.
I work for a global company and within that company I work in team that has a title including "global solutions". So it'd be fair to say my working hours are pretty flexible currently to support various time zones and this was happening even before Covid. There's a small regional office about 30 minutes from me and the regional manager has been pushing for me to come into the office despite the fact that no-one else in said office is on the same team and the rest of the staff there would only have a very vague idea of what I do......
When the edict came out I had a short conversation with my boss about how if they want me in the office I'll only provide support during core hours and we agreed that wasn't practical......
There is clearly a few different camps in this. My current VP said at a big townhall "I don't pay you sit at a desk for 8 hours a day and even if you are sitting at a desk it doesn't mean you're working.." but not everyone appears to be so enlightened. Tracking productivity by "outputs" is much harder than "inputs" which is why I think some managers are still in the old presentism attitude.
