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Apple and Google want to force remote workers back into cubicles. That friction could lead to a job exodus
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GitLab CEO and founder Sid Sijbrandij has a video meeting at his home and office on in San Francisco, California. Sid and the rest of his team work remotely. But some tech companies are expecting employees to return to the office, despite the friction it’s causing.Gabrielle Lurie/The Chronicle
The move to remote work at the onset of the pandemic last year happened virtually overnight, with shelter-in-place orders forcing office workers to abandon the spaces where they spent most of their waking hours as if driven off by a nuclear meltdown. So people spent the next weeks and months reorganizing their lives and homes, carving offices out of bedroom corners and slipping in and out of home schooling sessions for kids between calls, with former commute hours now devoted to myriad other household tasks.