Employers are ordering employees again to the workplace. In latest weeks Dell, a hardware-maker, and JPMorgan Chase, a financial institution, have issued such decrees. They be a part of a rising record that features AT&T, Amazon and even the American authorities, the place Elon Musk—who has referred to as distant work “morally mistaken” and its supporters “indifferent from actuality”—has championed the shift. Bosses insist that mandates will enhance productiveness. Staff see them as a strategy to lower workers with out mass firings.