Gross, 40, wasn’t sure how employees, many in their 20s and early 30s, would take it. Then one young man signaled he had a question. Thus began a tricky conversation at Anchor Worldwide, Mr. Gross’s firm, that is being replicated this summer at businesses big and small across the country. And in many cases, the decision to return pits older managers who view working in the office as the natural order of things against younger employees who’ve come to see operating remotely as completely normal in the 16 months since the pandemic hit. Some new hires have never gone into their employers’ workplace at all.

Source: New York Times July 26, 2021 14:48 UTC