While companies in other industries are also increasingly mandating workers back to the office at least a few days every week, the tech sector's shift is notable.
When Heather Aleinik was laid off from Shopify Inc. last summer, it was “one of the biggest curveballs” of her career.was conducive to her neurodivergence and love of travel while at the Ottawa-based e-commerce company, which launched a remote work policy at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic – a policy it claimed would be permanent.
While companies in other industries are also increasingly mandating workers back to the office at least a few days every week, the tech sector’s shift is notable – and even shocking to some – because the industry was an early champion of remote work. Wary of being unable to compete with big tech names and not wanting to disrupt workers who had grown accustomed to logging on from their kitchen table or wherever their travels took them, startups seemed poised to let staff work remotely forever, too.A recent report from jobs site Indeed found that out of the number of Canadians who had some form of hybrid work arrangement, just shy of 60 per cent were fully remote, down from 75 per cent a year earlier.
“This requires further study, but our hypothesis is that it is still easier to build trust in person and that those relationships help us work more effectively,” he wrote in an open letter. Amazon’s Andy Jassy appears to agree. The chief executive reportedly told staff in late August “it’s probably not going to work out” for those who won’t return to an office.
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