Employees Are Quitting Instead of Giving Up Working From Home

With the coronavirus pandemic receding for every vaccine that reaches an arm, the push by some employers to get people back into offices is clashing with workers who've embraced remote work as the new normal.

A six-minute meeting drove Portia Twidt to quit her job. Bro, they said no more teleworking and my co-workers started QUITTING She'd taken the position as a research compliance specialist in February, enticed by promises of remote work. Then came the prodding to go into the office. Meeting invites piled up. The final straw came a few weeks ago: the request for an in-person gathering, scheduled for all of 360 seconds. Twidt got dressed, dropped her two kids at daycare, drove to the office, had the brief chat and decided she was done. "I had just had it," said Twidt, 33, who lives in Marietta, Georgia.