I’m sure I will cover more return-to-work stories this week, but this gets its own segment. Activision Blizzard has made a U-turn and decided to leave COVID-19 vaccine mandates down to individual offices rather than changing its policy across the board. This after employees announced a walkout due to lifting the vaccine requirement, demanding an immediate reversal, that remote work should be offered as a permanent solution, [and] each employee should decide to work remote or in-office.
This is precisely what I expect to start happening — employers that push too far from where their employees are will get pushback really fast. As a business leader, don’t think you can just declare what you want work to look like going forward. Get too far ahead of yourself, and you’ll have a mutiny.
In this case, one unpopular change led to a litany of demands. I do not expect this to be the last.