[McGavin999]

Then they need to cut off internet access. Anyone not reporting to the office needs to be dismissed for abandoning their job. This is ridiculous, employees telling their bosses what they will and will not do.

[Alberta's Child]

You are 100% wrong about this. What has happened here is that the ridiculous response to COVID forced companies and employees to adapt quickly to a chaotic situation — and they adapted very well. For many jobs, telling employees they must come back to the office because the company doesn’t want to waste a $3 billion office building is like telling people they shouldn’t use e-mail because the company has dozens of perfectly good fax machines.

A recent anecdote lays it all out clearly. This was from a conversation with a peer in my industry over the challenges his company is facing in getting people back to work in NYC …

1. The company announced earlier this year that everyone had to be in at least three days per week.

2. Six good employees immediately left to work elsewhere … and in their exit interviews they all said they were adamant about never going back to New York.

3. They posted job listings for the six vacant positions.

4. Every single applicant for those positions made it clear that they will only work remotely.

5. The company is going to be backtracking on their original plan, and they have already approached the landlord in their building about subletting most of the space for the next 2-3 years before they vacate the place entirely.