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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Michael Sainato

AT&T workers fight return to office push: ‘We can do the same job from home’

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AT&T workers have started a petition demanding the company makes working from home a permanent option for workers. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

The Covid-19 pandemic sent millions of workers in the US from working in offices to working remotely. As unemployment benefits ended, vaccines rolled out, and reopenings expanded, employers and commercial real estate groups have been pushing to try to get workers back into offices.

But the pandemic further exposed the issues in returning to office, from long commutes to and from work, exorbitant childcare costs, ongoing concerns over exposure to Covid-19 variants and now monkeypox, workers are pushing to keep working from home as an option as employers force a return to the office.

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