As more companies mandate a return to the office, workers must readjust to pre-pandemic rituals like long commutes. But such routines have become more difficult two years later.
Last summer, Julio Carmona started the process of weaning himself off a fully remote work schedule by showing up to the office once a week. The new hybrid schedule at his job at a state agency in Stratford, Connecticut, still enabled him to spend time cooking dinner for his family…