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How big tech fell out of love with remote work

The biggest tech firms are all firmly on one side of the RTO debate.
December 17, 2025

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

Tech giants are pushing for the return-to-the-office (RTO) as companies want employees back at their desks.

Tech giants are summoning their employees back to the office, five years after championing the benefits of remote and hybrid work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Back in 2020, Meta (then Facebook) closed global offices in a broad shift to remote work. CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly stated that up to half of Facebook’s workforce could work remotely long-term, predicting that “many employees may never return to the office full-time” and that remote work could remain for the next five to ten years.

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