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> Lots of employers like to delude themselves that their company is some big important, cutting-edge enterprise that's making a real impact in the world.

Pretty much. The only time I've considered going back to in-person work since the pandemic was for a FAANG. If you think your employees want to go back to the office, you are either a big tech company or you are deluded

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Realistically most FAANG employees are not doing anything that will be written down in history either. For example, whichever division at Microsoft is responsible for Teams.

It's a common joke at Google: thousands of PhDs moving fields from one protobuf into another. Can confirm, did some of that personally before transferring into a more interesting area.

Actually, I work for one of the FAANGs. The vast majority of employees don't one to go back to the office either.

What makes it even worse is the one-size-fits-all mandate, with strict enforcement, like you didn't come in to the office Monday, so you have to come on Tuesday.

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