‘Here’s a revolutionary idea: Stop forcing people into the office 4-5 days a week': Management complains that their employees are too loud after mandating a return to the office; employees retaliate

The return to office (RTO) epidemic has begun. As companies revel in the idea of returning to in-person work, they forget the reality. Romanticizing the socialization in the break room, the ideation in the conference area, and the banter in the elevator, managers seem to forget the more irritating nuances of in-person office life. 

When this company forced its workers to come back to the office a minimum of 4-5 days per week, they were shocked when the once-empty office space became a boisterous marketplace of chatting, socializing, and mirth. Uh-oh, did management's romanticized dream of returning to the office backfire? When the empty office was suddenly filled with a myriad of lives and personalities of their colorful employees, not only did productivity tank, but the noise level went through the roof, apparently disrupting the boss's meetings and throwing a wrench in their production line. 

Alas, it may have seemed like a good idea to come back to the office, but these employees reminded their managers of the greatest pitfalls of office work, one annoyingly loud cubicle gossip session at a time.