And you would be a fool to believe them, they will fire you even if you moved to their hub.

Oh, wait, is that why you are in Seattle right now?

What they experienced is the decline in boot-licking and ass-kissing that management enjoyed as a perk in the office. Or the sexual harassment that some managers do in office. WFH deprived those managers of their joy, hence, back to offices!

Actual work? No one cares about actual work. Finishing your work earlier in the office just means you get to waste the remaining office hours.

Yes, that's the first thing came to mind when I saw this headline.

More layoffs coming to MS. Karma, I would say.

And I laugh at those who think following the orders and go back to office could avoid being laid off. No, it would just get you a severance package at most.

The smart ones will stay remote working while looking for another job before getting disciplined for not going to office.

While this is a common meme in /., one has to wonder, after so many years of NCLB, kids still fail at tests and getting worse.

So exactly what kind of "test taking" was NCLB teaching? Definitely not the kind that makes kids better at taking tests from we can see in the results.

There is no chance of NASA sending anyone to Mars in the next 10-15 years.

Simulating anyone living on Mars with current technology is the complete waste of time. By the time NASA have any real chance of sending people to Mars, the technology available, e.g. automated robots for chores, AI for companionship, synthetic food, etc, would be so vastly different that the result of this simulation would be no different than studying people living in a cave for a year.

This is purely spending money for the sake of spending, so NASA's budget would have something there in hopes of it won't get slashed next year. But it will in any case, we can hope this project is the one getting axed rather than other projects that might give some useful results.

So what is the effect of eating as much sugar instead with similar/equivalent sweetness? That could actually provide useful information to people choosing to use or not use artificial sweeteners.

Well, maybe take a look at who pays for this study may give some hints...

Soon, maybe Trump will start issuing Letters of Marque, too!

Enjoy having Microsoft use your documents to train their AI.

Eventually someone will craft documents that would poison AI training and share it to everyone to save in their OneDrive. One can hope.

We have useless management jargons designed to mislead and confuse, like "right-sizing", "let go", "efficiency", "synergize", "leverage", etc. Which really means very common words but created to make very mundane ideas sounded grand. Yes, absolutely agree these jargons hurt morale and collaboration, good luck trying to get management to change this practice.

Then there are useful technical jargons that actually means something and communicate a lot of information quickly. These HELPED collaboration among the competent employees.

And then there are also competent new employees and also incompetent ones. The competent ones light up at the proper use of technical jargons because they understand them, while the incompetent ones felt sad finding out they were incompetent.

I doubt the study is capable of distinguishing between these differences.

Is 90k more or less than that caused by the air pollution coming from the annual forest fires in Canada, California, etc?

Don't forget the scale of the Canada forest fire is enough to put Canada into the top 10 CO2 emitting countries of the world. More than the total output of over 180 other countries. I.e. it is HUGE.

There is something that can be done immediately for one of these two causes, guess which one the study investigated? And why?

You have listed all the reasons that companies must get people back in the office. /s

Over the years working in corporations, I wonder there must be some weird HR logic that was taught in secret HR training that companies hire people to suffer. If you aren't suffering enough, the company is losing its bang for the bucks they pay you.

I have seen HR policies that seemed to serve nothing except generate suffering in their employees, and if HR found stuff that people are (gasp!) enjoying at work, it will surely get shut down. Working remotely is now one of those things that HR found employees enjoy, hence it must stop.

In my experience, people do that because they either don't want that question being on the record, or they don't want the way they interact with people on the record.

Either way, they are people you don't want to interact with in the office.

This is the reason why I keep telling people not to be engaged in your job.

Your job is just a means to get a stable income, and there always other jobs out there for you. Do what you need to do and get out of your workplace. Get engaged in your hobbies, in your loved ones, in your games, or in whatever you choose except your job.

Save up enough money to last you through 6-12 months of zero income. Be prepared. Then your world will not come crashing down when some nameless VP decides to get himself a bigger bonus by laying off your whole department.

and they don't want to be told they are mediocre.

Hence if you want to engage most people, you push mediocre content to them to make them feel comfortable, so all social platforms need to reward mediocrity.

If you want to confirm this, just try to point out other people's mistakes in Facebook. See if you get a thank you or if you get flamed for it.

They thought the purpose of these trainings are to reduce the chance of getting phished? A big NO.

These trainings are there to cover the asses of management, so that when someone in the company got phished, management can point to these trainings and say "We have done all we can, we are not responsible!".

Hence, to find out if these trainings are effective, researchers should have compared how badly management was held responsible after getting phished.