| 2 million people a year are permanently injured from car accidents and 38,000 people die a year. I'm not willing any more to put myself at those kinds of risks for my employer. And that's before we engage with the climate impacts, the waste of time, the idiotic open office plans, the interruptions, etc. I'm not interested in compromise, I'm not buying anything about the entire concept. We're going to split into different kinds of workplaces, and remote-only employees are going to go to remote-only/remote-first workplaces. Large tech employers who want offices are going to have to deal with the fact that they're not going to be able to hire a group of tech workers that have those demands. Those employers would probably do well to consider spinning off remote-first divisions. That isn't my problem at all though, and "hybrid" is a hard no for me, and a lot of other people. People are making decisions about their life. This isn't something that you compromise with them over, you don't actually have a negotiating position. It does look like the people who want everyone else back to the office are now entering into the 3rd stage of Grief though (Bargaining). |