Oh yeah, power in a corporation goes top down, and it figures that top management likes it that way.
There’s definitely safety to be found in the familiar, i do it a lot, whenever i have to do something unfamiliar i will often let myself get overwhelmed trying to consider all the tiny implications. Eventually though the experience from early adopters will enlighten other companies. It’s a lot easier to take a decision like this when other people have done it and you have data to see what the results were. In the case of work from home, this process is already well underway, it’s been three years since covid and there’s already a lot of data that you can point to.