In the tech world people work remotely as the norm.
There has been some pushback. The owner of Twitter/X, and CEO of Tesla, has been trying to get people into the office on moral grounds but I don’t think they are succeeding.
Here is the problem
In d tech world, you is competing on a global scale for the most part. Engineers, developers, be it front end, back end, sysops or CSMs (fancy word for account management) are wanted by everyone. You pretty much can’t NOT open remote work unless you offer Lebanese money.
Just cheaper to offer WFH.
Here is the issue.
As soon as a company insists on their employees coming back to the office, recruiters just pepper that company’s talent with headhunt attempts and they have a great success rate of poaching.
It’s not unlike the nrl. You want talent, you can’t be the only one insisting on the unpopular (even if moral) option and then entice the Addin Fonua Blake’s of the world.
And the truth is they CAN work from home, often have global teams so why die on the hill?
Companies can save money on offices and have zoom meetings.
some countries in Europe apparently are very very worl from home focused.