During the height of the COVID pandemic, huge swaths of people worked from home, and workers came to appreciate the fact that they didn’t need to spend hours of their lives commuting. More recently, however, many companies have attempted to force employees back to the office.
Last September, Amazon announced a plan to mandate that all corporate employees be in the office five days a week to start 2025. Now, they’ve had to backtrack, at least temporarily. The reason? They don’t have enough office space to accommodate everyone.

