Maybe the top companies can do this because people like saying "I work for ___", but I would never consider working in an office again. Work life balance with remote is worth so much more to me than the extra money I'd make working at Microsoft or anywhere in person.
The title seems a it of an exaggeration, here is what is in the article:<p>> In a Monday morning blog post focused on its headquarters near Seattle, Chris Capossela, an executive, said that starting Feb. 28, “employees will have 30 days to make adjustments to their routines and adopt the working preferences they’ve agreed upon with their managers.”
Is anyone surprised? A lot of the large tech companies that have been saying it's ok to work from home have almost as much invested in real estate as they do in their own technology.<p>Sustained WFH would reduce the value of this real estate greatly so it's in their best interest to do an about turn as soon as it's "safe".<p>I don't think Microsoft is any different.
<a href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2022/02/14/the-next-chapter-of-our-hybrid-workplace-update-on-our-washington-state-work-sites/" rel="nofollow">https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2022/02/14/the-next-chapter...</a><p>> From this date, employees will have 30 days to make adjustments to their routines and adopt the working preferences they’ve agreed upon with their managers.<p>How much flex have managers been given with their teams?
Good luck with that haha. It's weird, it took two years, but at this point I can't really imagine having to be in an office for more than three days a week. Granted, if I had a FAANG tier salary I'd stop complaining.
I look forward to the day where we can accept that working from home or working from the office is purely a personal decision based on different needs, motivations, likes, the type of work and your environment.<p>There is no right or wrong.