Expensify, a San Francisco fintech startup, thought of a way to attract their employees back to the office after the pandemic has finally subsided in many parts of the world. But as with many other office workers who got a taste of what life felt like working from home or doing remote work, Expensify's employees didn't really find the cocktail lounge alluring enough to trade in the benefits of working from home. The company soon realized that not even a free office bar and lounge was enough and they eventually had to shut it down.
Many other companies have tried to get their employees back to working at the office, even to the point where they had to force them, to which the workers responded by simply quitting. And, although there are merits to employees working at the office especially in terms of creativity and collaboration, the quality of life perks that remote work or working from home gives just outweighs much of that in people's minds.
Of course, this is more prevalent in tech industries as geographical distance doesn't hinder productivity and workers can simply communicate online when they need to collaborate with each other. There are others however, who don't have the luxury of simply quitting their jobs, and so they are forced to go back to the office. But, if companies can reduce the disadvantages of going to the office versus working from home, then perhaps many employees would be okay with going to work again.
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