In 2025, Amazon, Dell, Apple, Google, IBM, Meta, Salesforce, and dozens more have doubled down on demands for employees to return to the office (RTO) at least three days a week, if not all five. And ...

Halfway through 2025, the return-to-office push continues to expand. The effort started to pick up steam last year, when corporate giants like Amazon and AT&T said they would bring their employees ...

At a recent JPMorgan Chase employee town hall meeting, one brave soul brought up a petition pushing back against the firm’s decision to force workers to return to the office five days a week. “Don’t ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way people work in lasting ways. One of the biggest shifts was the jump in remote work. In 2019, about 9 million people in the U.S. worked from home most of the ...

As the world experimented with working from home, U.S. energy firm Phillips 66 Co went the other way: it imposed a “work-from-work” policy for staff at its Houston headquarters in May even as the city ...

A good number of Michigan’s state employees are still working from home five years after the start of COVID, a status that merits explanation, especially as neighboring states are transitioning ...

As more organizations bring employees back to the office, they face a complex challenge: How to repopulate the workplace without undermining the improved productivity and employee satisfaction enjoyed ...

The Veterans Affairs Department last week reversed course on requiring federal employees who staff a suicide hotline for former service members to return to work in an office. A Veterans Crisis Line ...

Germany should, if possible, return to a balanced budget from 2022, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday, adding this would require discipline after Europe's biggest economy took on record new ...

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft has announced a new "flexible" work policy requiring employees to be in the office three days a week, by the end of February 2026, Amy Coleman, Microsoft's executive vice ...