Yahoo News: Asking Employees to Come Back to the Office Like the Old Days

Yahoo News — January 2026

Jennifer Moss is referenced in this Yahoo News article examining the growing trend of companies pushing employees to return to the office and the organizational challenges that follow. The piece explores how major employers are reevaluating remote and hybrid work policies, and the tensions these decisions can create around trust, collaboration, and workplace culture.

Quotes from the Article about workplace culture:

What’s missing from some of these RTO plans is the recognition of a cultural change, said Jennifer Moss, workplace strategist and author of Why Are We Here?: Creating a Work Culture Everyone Wants. The post-pandemic workplace should combine lessons from the pre-pandemic and pandemic-era models, she said.

“When we’re trying to get people back into the office, we still are executing the office in the same way that it used to be,” Moss told HR Brew. “We just can’t jam the toothpaste back in the tube.”

“The [third office] is a place where you have challenging discussions, where you learn to network, develop soft skills, be able to have team building, build up that social energy and that cohesion,”

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