Four years after the pandemic, many companies are intensifying efforts to require employees back in the office, while a significant number of workers insist on flexible arrangements. Employers increasingly view remote and hybrid models as underperforming because collaboration, supervision, and informal interactions suffered when teams stayed home. As normal business activity resumed, shortcomings of hybrid setups became clearer, with many employees failing to show on designated anchor days. Organizations face an inflection point to decide whether to mandate office presence because delay makes reestablishing norms harder. Hybrid models remain possible but demand substantial managerial effort to enforce attendance and maintain effectiveness.
We've gone through this period where there's been big debates about remote work and a lot of companies have persisted in various kinds of remote, but mainly hybrid. At the moment, the recognition is growing across employers that it hasn't worked so well. When business returned and things became a little more normal, it became easier to start to see some of the drawbacks. It wasn't enough just to keep the wheels going.
We're at this inflection point now where companies really have to decide if they ever want to get people back. The longer you wait, the harder it is to ever get people to come back without a big fight. Right now, people might be saying, 'I will quit if I have to go back to the office,' but it turns out they don't mean it.
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