Just posting to see how typical my situation is.
I've been in my current company for eight months or so. When I started, I knew it was 3 days in the office, two days from home. All fine.
I started and there were three other people in my department that I sat with. Nobody in my direct team is in the office with me, they're around the world or WFH.
As time has gone on, these other people have left (and their roles not rehired) or been make redundant. So now I go into the office three days a week (it's tracked centrally) to sit on my own, doing Teams calls with other locations.
Is this the norm in big companies?! It's bizarre. I genuinely enjoy going into the office and meeting other people, but if I don't have a team there, why mandate it?
I may make a flexible working request to work two days in the office instead of three. At £30 a day travel costs, I'm happy to come in, but if I don't need to come in, it would make sense to save some money.