I've noticed the media always puts out stories about how the work conditions regarding the remote work policies amongst return to office are not clear or a contradiction to how they responded previously. However they seem to never talk about Microsoft, which pretty much has the same exact policies. In fact, they seem to praise Microsoft's "hybrid" policy, which is literally the same thing as most companies. You have to ask your manager for remote work - it's not that simple. Plenty of people have been able to get full remote work. But many are not, despite this past year showing that remote work works. It's clear Microsoft does not care about it's employees' opinions. Delta variant or not, it's clear remote work is fine.
Google is a competitior to major media companies for ads. So they tend to hate on google for any reason they can find.
They need to start hating on Microsoft.
Gates was always in bed with media so MS had a hall pass. It was never a competitor to the media as well. That won't be quick to change.
Microsoft happens to do a really good job of managing public perception.
Microsoft spent billions on offices. They want ppl to use them. They care about your opinion, they just care about return on their massive investment more, which isn't shocking nor immoral for a corporation existing to make money.
Sunk cost fallacy?
I had been typing a long response, but then lost it when I switched tabs.
Lame Stream Media?
Lets be real - nobody cares about Microsoft, it is not just cool enough for media to talk abt Microsoft unless its a windows update regression affecting may be 100000 people.
we all saw this coming from the start companies don’t trust people working remotely