"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."
Remote work became widespread during the pandemic and enabled distributed teams to operate across time zones while maintaining productivity. Many companies rehired or hired remote-only staff with promises of flexibility. Some C-suite leaders later mandated part-time then full-time returns to office even as COVID risks persisted. Employees have grown more conscious of workplace rights and began demanding better pay, benefits, and healthier conditions, pushing companies to compete for talent. One team lead reported that an operation that functioned well remotely was forced back to the office despite continued productivity, creating tension and regret among managers who reversed or enforced such decisions.
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