CEO causes mass quitting after requiring dozens of remote hires to relocate to cities for in-person work: 'If you want to work from home, go work somewhere else'

No boss should be remotely surprised when employees expect that the conditions of their contracts will be honored. Changing the circumstances of someone's employment contract should function similarly to negotiations during the hiring process. Everything must be a two-way street and the solution must satisfy both parties. This is why it's particularly shocking in this day and age to see a CEO so out-of-touch when he forced entire teams of fully remote employees to relocate across the country for in-person office work. Not only was this change sudden and without warning but also he simply expected everyone to come aboard. It's not surprising that he was met with resistance; what is surprising is that the CEO was surprised by the resistance.

This thread was posted to Reddit by u/Icerman, the team lead for an app developer who was hired with the understanding that his whole team would remain fully remote. After the sudden change to the rules and the CEO's subsequently dreadful town hall, the original poster's team of eight people quickly narrowed itself down to two people. Keep scrolling below for the full story and the ensuing fallout. For more stories like this, here is one about an employee's snack revenge on his coworkers.