Full-time return-to-office (RTO) mandates—most recently from JPMorgan Chase, Amazon and now the U.S. federal government—have made headlines across the country and caused consternation among remote and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Julia Korn writes about leadership and career development. For millions of workers, the return-to-office crackdown isn’t just ...

In late 2024, top corporations like Amazon, Dell, and The Washington Post made headlines with strict office return mandates, leaving millions wondering: is workplace flexibility about to vanish? While ...

Remote work ballooned during the Covid pandemic as a public health measure. The share of full-time, remote work seems poised to flatline at a level five times that of 2019. Workers and companies have ...

Many employees are doing the bare minimum to satisfy in-office requirements, simply showing up long enough to get credit for being there before returning home to work. Forced back into the office, ...

Corrections & Clarifications: In an earlier version of this story, a manager misidentified the office where he dealt with coffee badging. It has been removed. ‘Tis the season to be… coffee badging?