Zoom is telling its 8,400 employees to stop working remotely at least two days a week and return to the office. The policy applies to employees within 50 miles of a Zoom office, with a Zoom spokesperson calling this hybrid approach the "most effective".

This means that if the people who made their fortune on the back of the mobile work revolution can’t see the value of working from home all the time it either does not have one, or company managers have control issues they cannot face.

Business Insider quips that Zoom making the move means "The remote work revolution is officially dead."

The Los Angeles Times argues, "After watching and waiting, some chaotic back-and-forth and a few false starts, the white-collar American workforce appears to be settling — for now — in a hybrid mode."

Even as more corporations are moving to call workers back to the office, arguing it's better for preserving company culture and decision-making, few employers have required employees to work on-site five days a week. Most are like Meta and Los Angeles-based Farmers Group, which recently announced that most employees working remotely would have to come in three days a week starting in September.

What we will suspect will gradually happen is that companies want to slowly pull out of home working completely and return to the old cubical galley slave model which propped their middle management career structure.

However, there are also signs that workers are deciding that remote working suits them, while companies who do not support that method are not viable as a result they are voting with their feet.