Inc. article from July 10, 2025. [New Data Shows Workers Are Mostly Ignoring Return-to-Office Orders](https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/new-data-shows-workers-are-mostly-ignoring-return-to-office-orders/91202144)
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return to work.
Misleading right from the start
The workers should ensure they don’t remain on the fortune 100 list. :3c
Meanwhile, everyone is the Fortune 101+ is raking in the talent by allowing remote work. Every job I’ve seen that is remote has had 400+ applicants on LI whereas on-site is lucky to get 20-30.
Companies offering remote are swimming in talent options.
Fuck that's depressing.
Because the other CEOs who don't understand how people can work remotely are doing it and they want to fit in by forcing their employees to do the same.
Proof that remote work makes for better and more effective employees means nothing, they just want control. Same reason they force people to follow specific office hours and mandate overtime that just drags out work that could be done in four days if they have flexible schedules.
City governments have been pushing hard because they're worried about their tax base and economies - not so much for the office space itself (though that's in danger), but the ancillary businesses like coffee shops, lunch places, and car parks. It's a shitty reason, as they could take the opportunity to rearchitect office space into livable housing and solve the problem that way - but they don't want to.
Eat the rich.
They probably don't taste very good.
Better to just burn them like witches.
I heard talk about this at my job. Which I'll be leaving shortly after if it goes through.
The job sucks, the only indignity I'm spared is having to take nonstop international teams calls from an office for no reason. If I'm not even spared that, it's time to go a looking and a leaving. I don't give a fuck either about keeping my exact pay scale or role or title.
Make sure you have a new job lined up first, because the job market is fucked.
I'm on the market now and I can confirm the job market is indeed fucked. Especially for anyone location restricted or wanting remote work.
Yup, I'm an IT engineer with over a decade of experience who was laid off in February and I haven't had a single interview from the hundreds of applications I've filled out despite multiple letters of recommendation from the owners of several former jobs.
I'm about to hopefully get a job in property management at my local college until things improve (and I can get my cyber security masters for free).
Yeah. I've been looking in analytics and it's awful. Any remote job on linked in gets over 200 applications ("people who clicked 'Apply'") in the first day. If you see a posting more than a day out it's very likely to have more than 1000 applications (I've seen as much as 4500).
I emailed a recruiter about a posting recently when the job page on the company site was throwing an error. I told her about the error and asked if the job was real/still available. She said she'd gotten over 500 applications within a few hours of listing it and shut down the posting because she was overwhelmed. I think that's the norm now.
Yeah I mean I'll try to strike gold at first by landing a new remote job, and then knowing that likely won't work I'll search for basically anything else. If it comes to it, I'll just subtly violate their policies and have them fire me in the inevitable next round of layoffs.
Cheaper than firing people.
Come on guys, just think of the middle managers, how else are they gonna micromanage you if you're not in the office?
Inc. article from July 10, 2025.
New Data Shows Workers Are Mostly Ignoring Return-to-Office Orders
it was always the goal, it gives them an incentive to use constructive dismissal to avoid paying out severances or other benefits. this way they can rehire or hire visa holders for less than what they offer wage before.
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