"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 employees' productivity."
The pandemic forced large-scale remote work, demonstrating that distributed teams can remain productive across time zones. Many businesses later reopened and offered hybrid options, but some executives rescinded remote policies and demanded full-time returns. Employees became more aware of workplace rights and leveraged that awareness to demand better pay, benefits, and healthier conditions. Several companies that profited from remote consumer behavior expected normalcy prematurely, prompting internal conflict when leadership declared COVID over despite ongoing risks. Individual managers reported teams hired as remote being told to return, with productivity unaffected by remote arrangements and staff resentment rising.
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