They'll still fail because they won't be able to twist employees enough to reach the minimum footfall floor required for the economic activity needed to sustain before times downtowns, but it will be annoying while they try.
Mayor of NYC complains about remote work, but then expands it to non union NYC employees because they can't retain talent [1]. Mayor of Minneapolis complains Target and the local county won't fully RTO, but leadership at those orgs goes "meh" and continues because they want to retain talent [2] [3].
[1] https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/805-23/mayor-ad...
[2] https://kfgo.com/2023/08/26/downtown-businesses-ask-target-t...
[3] https://www.minnpost.com/twin-cities-business/2023/10/why-ar...
