Canada

Climate Crisis? Cost of living crisis? Fuck you, corporate landlords have bills to pay and banks want their money back. Get back to your commutes. The markets demand it.

Now let's give the space to the soon-to-be-tazered economists about how efficient the market is.

Return-to-Work

Blatant propaganda in a news headline continuing throughout the article. These people are already working. It's "Return-to-Office"

Further down In the article.

People would rather stay home.

People would rather work from home.

Propaganda is rarely so obvious.

I think the second picture is good evidence that RTO mandates are often attrition campaigns. It's unlikey leaders, especilly of large corportions who do internal polling, are unaware of these attitudes. If they know this and mandate RTO, then they expect attrition and therefore are either OK with it or want to achieve it.

I've been working from home full-time since 2019, and there's no way I'd go back. I'm happier, I get more done, and I'm not spending a chunk of my day commuting. Fortunately, I work for a small company with great bosses, who haven't spent a fortune on office space they're desperate to justify.

Manager at a big tech company here. I’ve been fortunate to have been WFH since 2012, and my team is a diverse set of amazing developers from all across North America. Our company has started taking the position that new hires should be in office, and anyone close enough to an office should be in office — so I’ve informed my staff that if any of them gets any sort of demand they return to office to let me know so I can help void that as quickly as possible. I won’t be in their office (I don’t even live in a city that has an office…), and neither will any of their coworkers, so having any of them report to an office would be purely performative.

We’re developers. Many are somewhat introverted, and all are amazing with technology and already know how to use online technologies to work and collaborate together. I’ll continue to fight tooth-and-nail to keep them from having to return to an office (unless they want to).

Fortunately I have the support of my VPs above me. They know my team is very high performance with tons of institutional knowledge and don’t want to upset the apple cart.

There are those of us out there with some power who are doing what we can to fight the good fight!

Return to office = return to distractions for most people.

If you want people to do productive work, you need to put them in an environment that gives them that opportunity.

If that's an office, fine. But if that's at home (a.k.a "Home office"), or at a cafe, or on the beach, that should be fine, too!

I prefer to work in the office, but if my company decides that everyone has to come I would start looking for a new job. I like to come to the office and being the only one here, it's reminds me of studying on the library in college.

From what I've heard, for every company doing back-to-the-office, there's one expanding out work from home. So, it's holding pretty steady. The only thing they mention here, unless I missed it on a skim, is what the big banks are doing.

I'm just waiting for someone to Mario Party their boss after a return to office mandate. It would be deserved.

I had a recruiter (in the US) message me about some jobs. They're all on-site 6 (six!) days a week. That should be a crime and everyone involved in that banished from the land. This wasn't climate change work or anything important. It was like ai fintech nonsense.

I never got to work from home until a couple of months in 2025 because of an office space move. It was pretty nice. Most people didn't get much of it though.

Programming consultant here, luckily got contract from companies hundreds/thousands miles away, so for me it will be WFH until retreat.