Dylan Sun works in an otherwise empty section at Okta in August 2021. Companies and employees are rethinking the way people work, which will dramatically alter offices, cities and people’s lives.
So if the “Great Resignation” of millions of tech workers quitting didn’t happen, and the “Great Return” of everyone coming back to the office isn’t about to, why have they been trumpeted in media? And what actually has transpired? People line up to get food at various food trucks at Salesforce Plaza for a Salesforce lunchtime “Meet-N-Eat” event on Wednesday, March 16, 2022.
That makes top city leaders hopeful, and eager to get workers back to the office. “I reached out to members of the business community and asked them to work with me and join us in returning to work,” Mayor London Breed told roughly 200 people gathered at Salesforce Park on March 14, when she announced “Bloom SF,” which The City called “a week-long series of events welcoming employees back to Downtown.