[positivedialog]

Breach of social contract. For years these companies pretended that their corporate culture was all about going out of their way to make employees happy and fulfilled. The massive WFH brought forth by the pandemic has exposed that corporate culture actually clashes with employee fulfillment and is not focused on supporting it. The rationale with their RTO mandates may have merits, the problem is this broader context. This is making an about face without ever openly admitting the longstanding hypocrisy, and this is what makes the arguments brought forth difficult to hear for most people, and I personally think that their feeling is legitimate.

[busterarm]

Also big tech companies tend to have their offices in locations that are supply-constrained hellholes.

I. Will. Never. Go. Back. To. New. York.

[mlrtime]

+1 I'm very happy in a rural LCOL area.

I wouldn't live in SF proper even with a $500k salary increase.