I work for a Fortune 500 company. In the last 3 years we've gone from EVERYONE WFH to bringing most people back on a flex basis. Most are OK with the flex, but it's still very structured ie you have to be in x amount of days. Next week is our town hall to get an update on the company and tbh a BS q&a with the execs. BS because they never pick or answer questions about increasing wfh, pay, benefits etc.
This week our CEO posted a rather cryptic message stating things like 'a new chapter' 'working alongside in office' 'real time innovation.' CUE MASS PANIC!!!
Prior to covid, a good 20% of our company was full time wfh. They moved more to wfh after the pandemic ended. I would estimate probably about 30% is full time and the rest are flex. Now the fun part. As his message was posted on our internal server AND allows comments from employees, it was a freaking free for all!! HR did delete the nasty comments, but kept comments open for multiple days. Now the comments are ALL deleted and closed. And now I'm sad… because they were GREAT!! Essentially why when our productivity was up. Quality was up. Are we forced back in the office? And it turns out some dept were given incentives to come back. So…. town hall comment section should be GREAT next week!