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Employees are feeling burned over broken work-from-home promises and corporate culture ‘BS’ as employers try to bring them back to the office

  • Written by Kimberly Merriman, Professor of Management, Manning School of Business, University of Massachusetts Lowell
imageSome workers aren’t that excited about a return to the office. Antonio Sanchez Albacete/EyeEm via Getty Images

As vaccinations and relaxed health guidelines make returning to the office a reality for more companies, there seems to be a disconnect between managers and their workers over remote work.

A good example of this is a recent op-ed...

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