Why 'employees have the power’ over return-to-office: Expert 

commuting costs time, money and energy. and it's a particular annoyance for those who have to rely on public transportation. what is the point of inflicting an unnecessary hardship?

As soon as you learn your boss wants you to return to the office, look for another job which will allow you to work remotely. As soon as you get it email your boss and tell him you won't be back, and he can give you a job to his mother. Maybe SHE will enjoy the commute and the "office interaction."

mandatory working from office and then sitting on zoom call all day long, fighting for AC temperature, being unhappy, this is huge win for employers

The ones complaining about those who have higher skilled jobs that allow them to work from home are the ones who are usually just upset that they never were allowed to do so themselves. Really, it makes no sense to commute to the office when you aren't doing a customer facing job or a physical labor job. It IS a waste of the employees time and gas. And most WILL quit rather than go back to the office to do what they were already successfully doing at home. That companies loss is another's gain. Most of us, like me that work in IT, have returned to the office only to sit at a desk all day and STILL take meetings via zoom. With little to no interaction with coworkers or management. While in the same building as the management that wanted them to return to the office for in person "connection." Smh At the end of the day, the return to office for most corporations is simply being forced in order to justify paying for these corporate offices. Because if no one is using them, then why have them? What they should do is tear those buildings down and build affordable housing to help with the crisis we have been experiencing across the nation. Especially considering how many full time employees across the nation are living in their cars or on the street. Yet still going to work. Not making a livable wage. Anyone who works full time should be able to at least afford the basics like a roof over their head and food to eat. Cost of living is out of control but people want to argue over remote work? This is all just disgusting.

My company wants people to go back to work but they’re afraid people will quit. Their new hires are as of this year are in office only. The rest of us was hired to work remotely. I will go to the office on a hybrid schedule if they make it mandatory but I’m not volunteering.

This guest is so right. Need her on more often!

If they want employees to come to the office everyday even though its not a requirement to get the work itself done (and they just want it because it feels better to them and not because its needed for the actual work), they should pay for the gas and the time it takes to get to the office.

Bosses want workers back to have their ego stroked.

This is crazy. The only person that has control over you returning to the office is whoever signs your paycheck, period. No, it doesn't make sense to make people incur the time and cost of returning to office but employers don't care about that. It's all about control. Period. I'm being forced to start going back in soon after four and a half years of working from home. It totally sucks but I need my paycheck.

I didn't realise Ryan Gosling moonlighted as a news anchor

We are being mandated to go back a few days in the office. We don’t want to but they keep sending emails, saying things like we are monitoring your key cards. Is this even legal. It’s not written anywhere either.

Thank you big companies for training the people who are golden handcuffed so they are required to return to the office. Once they are trained my company will take them off your hands since they will be ready to work from home.

I have an experience when there's an exclamation point! WOW that is scary

What do these bosses have in common that want people back into the office?

So during the pandemic it’s ok for me and the rest of the warehouse staff not to come to work some even taking public transport. But all the office staff can work from home forever ? I’m tired of hearing kids in the background while I’m trying to save our company.

Commercial space wont sell/investment made Employee micro-managing etc

What happens when you quit your job, but all the other companies also want you to work in the office?

They just replaced 38 employees that refused to come back to the office in a week in the company where I work. I work in the IT department of a well known company that I will not mention. People from all over the world come to visit the place where I work. You may put two and two together. These are jobs that pay well over 100,000 a year. People are playing with fire when trying to make their employers submit to them. I seen it with my own eyes 😁 is not going to play out well for the employees.

This will change with a heavy recession. Bosses will lay off the remote ones. As things recover the new jobs will require office attendance.

Don’t show up for work as required, you quit…..Apple et. Al. will be fine even while downsizing. Apple won’t be the only company requiring work presence. Remote only demands from job seekers will fail.

That will end when the layoffs start picking up steam

all these "phrases" are simply normal human interaction with the world

Wow, so many commenters here seem to like the taste of boots

Formerly, "Quiet Quitters" were just called "Slackers".

3:09 BINGO

Businesses will have lots of liability for being willy nilly with the customers information being scattered all around and not secure within an office setting

Is going to the office really that difficult for you people? I was an analyst for 5 years before becoming a firefighter. There’s is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING difficult about being an office worker lol. Thank God you guys work from home, we wouldn’t want y’all dying of inconvenience in the workplace.

Fire them. Their are 1000's who will work. FIRE THEM

The guest is a young entitled chick

Goodbye lazy people, work or go hungery

Fire all those APPLE employees refusing to go back to work and then hire employees dedicated to follow company rules....

This is to those who refuse to return to the office. Quit your job and go freelance. Oh that’s right, you don’t want to because that would require being fully responsible for your own health insurance, tax deductions and retirement plans. NEWSFLASH! No matter how skilled you are you’re just another number as in “EXPENDABLE.” And with all of these layoffs happening I’m sure that there are plenty of unemployed people out there ready to take your place.