Over the course of the pandemic only one thing has been certain: nothing is certain. Thanks to cresting waves of infection, shifting vaccine timetables, and unprecedented supply chain snarls, most offices have written, torn up, and rewritten their back-to-office plans multiple times by now.
Some degree of confusion is probably inevitable, but that doesn’t mean employees have endless patience for ever-shifting plans. As top VC firm Andreessen Horowitz recently pointed out, remote work policies aren’t just about remote work. They’re also a subtle sign of what a company’s leadership personally prefers. And they often reveal more about a company’s culture than they intend to.
