If media employees have proven to their bosses over the last 18 months that they can be productive while working from home, why are they being required to come back into the office this fall?
That’s a question employees individually and unions collectively are posing — and an angle they have used to push back against management’s demands that employees work from the office at least a few days a week. They see their successful productivity as a reason to continue working remotely while the conversation around returning to work has mostly centered around issues of health and safety, especially due to the spread of the COVID-19 delta variant.
