The backlash towards distant work, when it got here, was swift and fierce. After a post-pandemic honeymoon, when many firms flirted with the thought of letting employees make money working from home for ever, bosses started summoning staff again to the workplace. “I’ve had it with this…I’ve been working seven days a goddamn week since covid and I are available and—the place’s all people else?” groused Jamie Dimon, boss of JPMorgan Chase, in leaked feedback from a current townhall on the financial institution.