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Discover the reasons why companies want employees to return to the office and the benefits of working in a physical workplace.

Why they want us back to the office ?

Ah, I want to work from home. I’m too tired to go to the office.

I have a hybrid contract, but the small company I work for doesn’t mind whether I stay at home or go to the office. I live 40 km away from my office. As long as I am productive, I guess it’s not a problem.
It is expensive to commute, and I’m able to save 2 hours each day by working from home. Commuting would consume a quarter of my salary on gasoline and car maintenance, and there are also a lot of police setting unavoidable traps on the road to issue fines (the municipalities rely on fines).
I am happy to be able to work from home. I spend 1 hour doing yoga and exercises every morning, and the rest of the time cooking healthy food for myself.
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There is no real reason to force people to waste money and time on commuting unless you work on a sensitive project or your physical presence is required because you need to work on physical devices too.

They are solely fixated on the belief that employees perform better under strict supervision. However, the mind works miraculously fast when working from home, for reasons yet unknown

As someone who worked from home since 2019, I rather work from office, it’s more productive, and working from home easily gets lazy, hence maybe that’s that an employer is afraid of. Tho it’s all about keeping a good routine and not falling out of it!

To drive up commercial real-estate and cosmetic companies were loosing millions of dollars. The sad thing they want to conquer climate control but return to office isn’t that bad for the environment