"For a short while last year, I worked as a team lead for one of the app development teams for one of the food delivery apps. The entire team had been working from home since the start of the pandemic and had a bunch of remote-only people joins. They were spread across several time zones, but we made it work because we thought this was how things were going to be going forward,"
"After making several billion dollars from people like us working from home and ordering delivery, around the end of summer, the entire C-suite decided that COVID was pretty much over (spoiler: it definitely wasn't and all my people knew it) and that we would all be heading back to the office part-time, gradually increasing to full time. However, that hasn't made much of a difference in employee's productivity."
Many offices were forced to adapt and asked employees to work from home during the pandemic. As case counts eased, businesses reopened and many companies offered flexible options, while some employers strictly demanded office returns. Employees became more aware of their rights and leveraged that awareness to press for better pay, benefits, and healthier work environments. Some companies now must compete to retain workers. One team lead described a food-delivery app that had operated remotely across time zones, then rescinded remote work despite hiring remote personnel and profiting from delivery during lockdowns. The company ordered a phased return to the office, yet productivity reportedly remained unchanged.
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