Crains New York
- The idea of permanent remote work is slipping away.
- Bosses of firms like Meta and Goldman Sachs are ordering employees back to the office most days.
- Authors of some of the top WFH studies suggest they are right — on some measures.
The work-from-anywhere era is over.
After almost three years of relaxed work-from-home policies, CEOs are starting to drag their remote employees back to the office most days of the week.
"Companies have realized what they're losing from not having people showing up at the office," Michael Gibbs, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, told Insider.
"They've had enough time now trying this experiment to realize that they went too far with working from home and need to re-strike the balance."