Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adia Harvey Wingfield is an author and a professor of sociology. By early 2025, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon had had enough. In ...

A 2024 study of S&P 500 firms found that companies often mandated a return to the office after stock prices fell—hoping in-person work would spark productivity and improve financial performance. But ...

Christine Wong-Tai, who works in healthcare IT, struggled with a return-to-office mandate. She was forced to go into the office regularly right after moving farther away; her commute doubled. She also ...

Wade Miller has worked at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for more than two decades. He might soon be on his way out. Miller is one of tens of thousands of state workers who, starting ...

Government reopens: With the end of the longest shutdown in U.S. history, federal workers were back in their offices, national parks were fully reopening and the government was returning to normal ...