Topic
In-office attendance requirements and the shrinking share of fully remote corporate roles.
Flex Index data show US employers raised required office time 12% from early 2024 to late 2025, while attendance rose 1% to 3%. JPMorgan ended hybrid work and the Big Four kept it, so each employer is choosing a mandate whose return in attendance is small so far.
Reality
Ryan Roslansky, who took LinkedIn from 700 million to 1.3 billion members, will leave Microsoft at the end of 2026, citing his family's ties to the Bay Area. Nadella will split the Microsoft 365 and Copilot role among executives already in place.
Perspective Coverage
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Uber is removing 3,300 roles, but the operating change is a depth limit that, at just under 30,000 employees, only works if the average manager carries more than four direct reports.
Reality
Uber is removing about 3,300 roles and a fifth of its managers while promising $10 billion to the self-driving business it sold in 2020, and the staff who remain get roughly 300 remote seats between them.
Perspective Coverage
6 publishersReality
The reduction arrives alongside results that largely beat analyst expectations, so the stated reason is structure rather than distress, and the memo leaves behind rules about managers that other operators can count.
Perspective Coverage
4 publishersReality