Also lets them do a soft layoff because financials aren't where they want it to be but announcing a layoff hurts shareholder confidence and consequentially stock value.

Nothing beats driving into the office to spend 4+ hours a day in zoom meetings with a team on the other side of the ocean.

Yes. Lets them lay people off without having to announce to shareholders that they have to lay people off because the value of EA's stock is pretty much entirely operating off of "trust us bro" after the FC/DA quarterly results debacle.

Brother we can't even get cubes for everyone or sufficient meeting rooms lol, we can't even get designers laptops capable of running the games they're working on. There's no way they're going to give us compensation for commuting.