Young Workers Retaliate Against RTO Mandates With 'Task Masking'

Six in 10 exclusively remote employees say they are extremely likely to search for employment elsewhere if they are not allowed remote flexibility, according to research from Gallup.

The preference for remote work hasn't stopped some of the U.S.'s largest employers, including Amazon and JPMorgan, from implementing return-to-office mandates — even in the face of parking shortages and petitions.

Now, there's another unintended consequence: the viral TikTok trend where young people perform in-office productivity without increasing their output at all, dubbed "task masking" by career-services platform career.io.

So what is task masking?

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