The more you fight RTO plans, more a company is going to fight back. For last three years, surging economies and lack of talent in marketplace meant that companies were at mercy of job aspirants, so they’d do anything to hire or keep them. Now that train has left the station and companies have rediscovered their power back and they are flaunting it as much. You want a HCOL salary but keep living in a LCOL area away from HQ, too bad.