Major US tech firms keep pushing back their return-to-office deadlines. Maybe it's time to admit defeat.
When it comes to a mandatory return to the office, it may be time for employers to admit defeat.
In the last two weeks alone, some of the biggest tech companies in the US have pushed back their return-to-office deadlines as virus cases surge once again and concerns over the Omicron variant make the future less than certain. First it was Google, which told portions of its global workforce — the US, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East — that they won't have to start working a hybrid schedule beginning January 10,Then Facebook parent company Meta told employees that while it will fully reopen its US offices January 31, they'll have the option to delay coming back in by three-to-five months,And in a major reversal, Lyft said on Wednesday that its employees could keep working from home for the entirety of 2022,...
These decisions have, quite frankly, made employees mad. When Amazon announced in March that it planned to return to an"office-centric culture" after many months of successful remote work, that they felt the company was making a"huge mistake," one that would make it difficult to recruit top talent.if they're required to return to the office — one worker told Insider that their colleagues had moved from within commuting distance and had"no real intention of coming back."last month that the tech giant's strict requirements about working in the office were a main factor in him quitting his job and taking a 50% pay cut.
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