[tjarrett]

During the pandemic I was changed to permanent full time remote.

I work for a large private university. If they told me to come back into the office three days a week I would not even consider not complying. I'm pretty sure they'd fire me after a week or two of me not showing up.

It blows my mind that people can get away with just ignoring such directives -- especially in the commercial sector.

[garciasn]

It blows my mind that companies can get away with telling employees they will forever be remote only to ignore their own directive a few years later because of...reasons.

[dmitrygr]

> it blows my mind that people can get away with just ignoring such directives

Depends on who you are and how needed you are. And while everyone is replaceable, it is not true that everyone is replaceable within a week, or even a month.

[Analemma_]

> It blows my mind that people can get away with just ignoring such directives -- especially in the commercial sector.

If labor is a seller's market, they can get away with whatever they can get away with. Amazon could just terminate everyone who refuses to RTO; the fact that they haven't done so yet indicates they don't think they have a strong hand in labor negotiations, so why shouldn't people push back?