Is the Final Migration Back to the Office Happening in 2025?

Big corporations are bringing employees back and CEOs are working to make the office experience feel ‘worth it’ to persuade employees to return.

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With Amazon’s five-day-a-week return-to-office mandate about to take effect, many are wondering if remote working is coming to an end in 2025.

Remote working, a rarity before the COVID-19 pandemic, has become the norm in many sectors. According to surveys by WFH Research, as of August 2024, approximately 28 percent of paid days in the United States were work-from-home days.