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This New (and Very Annoying) Tactic Is Forcing RTO Companies to Let Workers WFH

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03.06.2026

This New (and Very Annoying) Tactic Is Forcing RTO Companies to Let Workers WFH

Meet ‘Bob,’ the avatar for a rising wave of employees who are winning work-from-home privileges by making themselves completely insufferable in person.

BY BRUCE CRUMLEY @BRUCEC_INC

Employers have made considerable efforts, and obtained remarkable results, in asking workers to spend more time in the office over the past two years. But while even complying employees usually regret the decreased flexibility those tighter in-person rules involve, some defiant staffers are resorting to tricky ways to safeguard their cherished work from home permissions: by being sufficiently irritating to their colleagues and managers that they’re allowed to work........

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