How Long Until We See "Work from the office" mandates?

"We need people back to work."  Is this the new mantra? 

Is getting back to the office a matter of national security?

Could a "Back to the Office" mandate be in your future?

Why would back-to-work mandates evolve?

1. The powers believe in mandates.  
2. The powers know how to spin anything into a National Security issue.
3. Getting the economy going again is "a national security issue".
4. The powers are influential.
5. The powers know the populace is numb to being directed.

Consider Canada.

Our cousins to the north have always been the most polite society in our hemisphere.  Easy going, if not over-apologetic. So it was refreshing to see protests occur without burning buildings, smashing windows, or occupying city blocks.  

The juxtaposition of Canadian police horses stomping a woman and law enforcement kicking a protester while he was down was shocking.  It seems in Canada, authorities are more violent than the protesters - a testament to how far an unhinged government will go.

Consider Australia.

Australia, another western, free society has locked down society, built and populated Covid quarantine camps.  

They've banned singing and dancing. 

Enough cannot be said about the situation down under. One can only imagine what the next global crisis will instill.  All this took place over a willing populace.

Consider New York City "Shattered".

 

  "This town's full of money grabbers. Go ahead.  Bite the Big Apple.  Don't mind the maggots."

The mayor and those who think the same, believe that the past two years of increased productivity are for naught. His one statement, "We need to go back to work." is a slap in the face to all those who were WORKING from home. His attitude is if you're not working in his city, you're not working. 

 A rather arrogant notion, don't you think?

He is saying what mayors across the United States are thinking or have parroted -"Our cities are going to crumble if we don't get workers back to the cube fields."  

City Hall will not unroot.

What does Work From Home mean to businesses?

“Leadership is going to be essential to driving people back to work,” Cushman & Wakefield Global Brokerage Chairman Bruce Mosler said at Bisnow’s Workplace of the Future event.

As a person, do often wish to be 'driven back'?

The establishment will not go quietly.  It will start with attempts to entice:

1. Huddle rooms
2. Patios
3. Free food

These are velvet handcuffs and will not entice the work from anywhere generation.  The carrot will not change the work from anywhere movement and the movement is going country.

When the enticements do not work, what next? Can you see messaging promoting the positive social value of the 9-5 job?  

Is it unrealistic to foresee an economic mandate to return to the office? 

I doubt we'll see Back to the Cube mandates.  But I never thought we'd see an entire country locked down and populating Covid Containment Camps.