Return-to-Office Rebellion Gets Serious
Happy Monday:?In today's edition we look at the brewing rebellion among remote tech workers being called to return to offices, the surprise joys others are finding about being back, and the biggest challenge for many new college graduates (Hint: It's not finding a job.)?
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The Tech Rebellion Against Return to Work
Some of the economy’s most in-demand employees are about to find out how much power they have over where and how they work. Many tech companies are finally calling their workers back to offices, and some who've moved away or embraced remote work don't want to return.
How?the emerging power struggles?play out will be a telling indicator of how much leverage remote-work converts in other sectors have as more employers call staff back to offices.
Others Are Rediscovering the Surprise Joys of Office Life
As other employees get called back, some?are discovering (or remembering) things they like about the office. Commutes that once felt onerous are weirdly welcome, a quiet reprieve from the rest of the day. Shutting a computer down at 5 or 6 p.m. finally means something again. They’re working fewer hours, enduring fewer useless meetings, feeling more human, writes?Work+Life columnist Rachel Feintzeig.
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Pay Is Up for New Graduates—But Not as Much as Rent
Recent graduates are in high demand. They are also entering what may be the?toughest-ever market for renters.?New?graduates heading to New York City and San Francisco have long needed to find roommates or tiny apartments to afford a place to live. This is now also the case in many other cities. Thousands of grads who had expected to find an affordable one-bedroom on their own are making new plans.
Elsewhere in The Wall Street Journal
Check out some of the Journal’s other best-read stories on work life and the office over the past week:
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? CEO Pay Hits a Record High (Read)
? Are Ties Really Dead? (Read)
? Graduation Is Chaotic This Season. Blame the Supply Chain (Read)
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1 年if i am forced to return i aint working no more.
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2 年Some company's culture had so many unresolved known issues before the pandemic that employees are not excited to go back. It's hard to have someone come back to the same messy situation.