"You can't spend a lot of time hiring grown-ups and then treat them like children," Spotify's HR chief Katarina Berg said in a recent interview.

Collaboration, learning and culture are the standard reasons for returning to the office, but they don't tell the whole story.

Amazon's workplace mandate signals a dangerous rift in the employer-employee relationship, prioritizing power over trust and collaboration.

Amazon's corporate workers were recently told they'll soon have to return to the office five days a week. And most seem very unhappy about it.

The largest employer on the Eastside won’t follow Amazon back to the office. Last month, Amazon updated its return-to-office mandate by telling employees it expects them to work in person all five days of the workweek starting in January.

Amazon employees are dissatisfied with the new 5-day return-to-office policy and a large number of them are considering looking for a new job.

The software and cloud-computing giant currently allows employees remotely, with many new hires promised the flexibility of working from home at least half the time. But that isn’t written in stone.

Microsoft (MSFT) has quietly given its staff a major update about remote work just days after Amazon unveiled its own plan to have its employees return to the office five days a week, starting next year.