If they really were worried about carbon footprint, working from home is a really easy solution.
I drive about 5k/year now and most of that is vacations.
In reality, this is all about Commercial Real Estate.
SF is getting pummeled with vacancy and vacancy penalties.
Commercial real estate is dropping in SF.
LOL! Yes, I’ve used their own virtue signaling Gaia worship against them too. “wouldn’t it be better for the environment if we worked from home? Think of all those fossil fuels not used by having to commute into an office”. Save da Erf!