People are going for broke over staying remote.
As the coronavirus pandem𝓰ic’s stranglehold on humanity ebbs and society reopens, many bosses are asking that, after a year of working from home, employees now return to the office. But some ar꧅e refusing to go.
“I had just had it,” 33-year-old Georgia resident Portia Twidt of her decision to quit her job as a research compliance specialist last month after management began increasingly pushing her to go to in-person meetings at the office. Twidt had taken the position in February because it wa🃏s remote, but her inbox became full of requests that she attend various meetings in real life. Instead, she easily found a new job that allowed her to stay remote and quit her current job.
“They feel like we’r🌳e not working if they can’t see us,” she said of hཧer former bosses. “It’s a boomer power-play.”
A 1,000-person poll done in May by Morning Consult on behalf of Bloomberg News found that nearly half of US adults are of the same mindset: 39 percent said they’d consider quitting their jobs if their employers didn’t allow them some remote work flexibility.
“Remote work an♛d hybrid are here to stay,” Sara Sutton, CEO of job-service platform FlexJobs, told Bloo💖mberg.
In December, when 30-year-old Netherlands-based software developer Jimme Hendrix’s job began preparing for a February office return, he also decided to quit rather than go back to ofᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚfice life.
“During COVID I really started to see how much I enjoyed working from home,” Hendrix, who now freelances and helps his girlfriend with her art business, told Bloomberg. “I can just do whatever I wa⛎nt around th🅠e house, like a quick chore didn’t have to wait until like 8 p.m. anymore, or I can go for a quick walk.”
In April, when the IT company Gene Garland works for told staff to begin coming back to the office, two of his colleague💯s promptly resigned, the 24-year-old Virginia resident told Bloomberg. “Bro, they said no more teleworking and my co-workers started QUITTING,” he at the time.