I get it.

But if you have to invent work for them, it means there’s not enough real work for them: too many employees and not enough load. Of course you can assign them to iron handkerchiefs but if there is no real job task, then what’s the point

What kind of job is it? I know very many people work strictly remotely, they surely don’t have the issue of not enough work, quite the opposite. I might admit to higher ups at this point that my staff doesn’t have enough work to do