Meta and Google have been actively encouraging employees to return to physical offices, implementing policies that require a set number of in-office days each week

Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder, criticized remote work, calling it unproductive during a TV interview. Reflecting on pandemic-era flexibility, he argued worker power led to inefficiency. Linking layoffs at Google,

Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder, attributed Silicon Valley's end of work-from-home to perceived worker inactivity. He linked the 2022-2023 tech layoffs to companies recognizing remote worker dispensability.

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel argues that Silicon Valley's experiment with remote work revealed widespread unproductivity, leading to mass layoffs. He claims many remote workers weren't actually working,