Companies are really starting to push their luck. They already are dealing with a tremendous labor shortage. These games they're playing are just as likely to d

Companies are really starting to push their luck. They already are dealing with a tremendous labor shortage. These games they're playing are just as likely to drive people out of the industry as they are to get them to come back to the warehouse size open workspace a long commute from home. People now know how much better things can be while preserving or even increasing productivity. That genie isn't going back into the bottle because a bunch of middle managers suddenly are having a psychological identity crisis not being able to spend their days Lumberghing over the workers. But go ahead and try to force things. First people will leave for a competitor who isn't trying to reverse time and if the competitors join forces to try to make offices happen again, people will move on, perhaps even becoming the competitors themselves. Take the 'L' and move on to better things.