. In an interview with the magazine Footwear News, the author, TV personality and entrepreneur slammed hybrid work culture, saying that people cannot “possibly get everything done working three days a week in the office and two days remotely.” Stewart’s comments come as more managers push for an end to the work-from-home trend that took hold more than three years ago at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The CEOs of many banks, including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase, asked some employees to return to work five days a week in the last two years. More recently, Telsa’s CEO Elon Musk came down even harder on the work-from-home trend, calling it “morally wrong.” The question of whether in-person work is necessary kicked into high gear three years ago when many companies decided to send most white-collar employees home at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.