Sometime between March 2020 and the end of 2021, “office workers” ceased to be a thing.
“Offices” didn’t, of course, and nor did the kind of work that people typically did in offices before the pandemic. But the inherent connection between the two was irrevocably severed, as working from home became first a necessity, and then forever afterward a possibility.
Now, WFH has become a point of contention around the world, as workers clash with management over where people work and who gets to choose. As professor Mark Mortensen at business school Insead tells Fortune, “There is a culture war happening right now.”
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