I'm not sure that would be the magic bullet, but you're on the right track. If you want people to return to the office, use carrots not sticks.
I personally can't stand virtual meetings with more than 2 or 3 people. They are wildly more inefficient then in person. Add on top a meeting focused on brainstorms or discuss and it's a shit show.
Give people a reason to return, and have it actually be true, and people won't complain about being asked.
But just saying "you need to be back in the office just because" is just going to breed resentment.
The worst is "hybrid" meetings where some are in the same room and some are remote. It just doesn't work.
Fully remote meetings work for routine stuff like regular team planning etc. Where they fail is what I call the "magic meeting" where management types seem to think if they get the right people in a room together things will just magically happen. But those meetings never achieve much anyway apart from making people feel good for a while. A remote meeting just removes any illusion.
I personally can't stand virtual meetings with more than 2 or 3 people. They are wildly more inefficient then in person. Add on top a meeting focused on brainstorms or discuss and it's a shit show.
Give people a reason to return, and have it actually be true, and people won't complain about being asked.
But just saying "you need to be back in the office just because" is just going to breed resentment.