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Employees Are Returning to the Office, Just to Sit on Zoom Calls
Those at companies pushing for in-person work are asking: What’s the point, if we’re still meeting online?
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It’s the 2022 return-to-office story: Figuring out childcare arrangements, digging work clothes out of storage, battling the morning commute — and then getting on a video call with colleagues sitting next to you.
With Covid cases relatively low, companies are increasingly calling their employees back to in-person work, at least for part of the week. Executives usually cite collaboration and work culture as reasons to return. But once in the office, workers are finding that Zoom meetings are still a central aspect of the day.