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Big Tech Wants You Back in the Office

What’s really behind these return to office mandates?

Tech companies also have a lot of influence over work culture in general now, so when they start putting in return to office mandates, people pay attention and wonder if there's going to be a ripple effect. Even people who work in tech don't have the money, especially if they're living in places like San Francisco, for all of the help they need to take care of their kids and run a household, and so it's incredibly important for them to have flexibility, to be able to coordinate childcare, maybe make dinner once in a while. Lauren Goode: And ironically, let's bring it back to Elon Musk again, he's been a very vocal, let's call it, a pronatalist, someone who is lamenting the lowering birth rate and talking about the need for people to procreate, and yet his work policies are some of the most unfriendly.

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