CEO Revokes Company's Work-From-Home Option, Everyone Starts Quitting

Many people turned to work-from-home jobs at the height of the pandemic when lockdowns made it impossible for business-as-usual to continue. Telecommuting became the new normal, and suddenly working for a company in another state was an option. Sounds like a win-win for everyone, right? Companies didn't have to pay for office space and remote workers had more free time and newfound flexibility in their schedules. It was all going great until employers started making their remote workers come into the office. Redditor u/Icerman was just one of many people who started a new job with the understanding that they'd have the option to work from home indefinitely. When their employer decided to change the policy, needless to say, people were not happy.

OP's CEO said “If you want to work from home, go work somewhere else," and most of their team did exactly that.

If you're going to hire people on the pretense that they'll be able to indefinitely work remotely, you should probably be prepared for dissent when you suddenly change the policy.

No amount of pizza parties is going to inspire people to uproot their lives just for a job.

What were they expecting?

Via u/Icerman

People in the comments were unsurprisingly supportive.

One redditor accused OP's former employer of using shady bait-and-switch tricks to attract talent. Another turned the tables on OP's former manager and exclaimed, “If you won't let your employees work from home, someone else will.” Ironically, companies would probably improve their employee turnover rate if they were just honest to begin with. There's nothing wrong with working in an office if that's the expectation from the start.