'Nobody is questioning it': Employee submits Work From Home requests to HR, they never approve, he goes remote anyway and gets away with it

Imagine getting away with this kind of corporate sorcery! We know that most companies that have since gone through the whole "return to office" process are pretty strict about in-person policies. Often what happens in a corporate environment is a gradual return to in-person work. It might start at a couple of days a week, but it also may gradually increase to a set period of mandatory days in a largely vacant office environment. Remember: it's all about the "culture." Just kidding, it's all about control and justifying a lease, but fools can dream that it's about the culture, I suppose.

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