Is there a growing divide between employers who want staff back in the office and employees who want to work from home?
In June Elon Musk told his staff at Tesla that he wanted them to come back to the office.Mr Musk is not the only boss to tell his workers to come back to the workplace, and in many cases some have decided to leave their jobs rather than return to a five-day week in the office.
Other research also suggests there is a divide opening up between those who lead companies and those who work for them on the issue. It took Christian just a couple of days to find another job and hand in his notice and he said many of his colleagues followed suit. "It's just a better way to run a business," says Jeff Maggioncalda, the chief executive of the US-based online learning platform Coursera whose more than 1,000 employees all work "remote first", meaning they choose if they work in the office or at home."I was a 'go to work every day' person and we used to allow some people to work from home on Wednesdays and honestly, I despised that policy.
Technology isn't the only sector where women are more likely to choose a company that allows them to work remotely. She says that people with disabilities are also more likely to value remote working, as well as those from ethnic minorities."We're in the UK, productivity is at an all-time low. You have people... saying to you, 'we are more productive with a remote first type set-up.' Why not trust them and see what happens as part of a great experiment?"