Management Demands Return-to-Office, ADA Be Damned
John Waudby, who has a prosthetic leg, claims his company told him to 'Get your ass on-site or find another job,' and explicitly stated, 'The company does not care about your ADA accommodation.' This tale hits every note of modern corporate 'flexibility': a performative embrace of diversity and inclusion until it costs a dime or disrupts middle management's arbitrary power fantasy. These mandates
often emerge not from increased productivity metrics (studies, like those from Stanford, repeatedly show remote work's efficiency), but from real estate investments and a desperate attempt to restore the illusion of managerial control lost during the pandemic. One might wonder if the same corporate champions who loudly proclaimed 'We value our employees!' during the height of remote flexibility
somehow forgot those values when commercial property leases came due. The irony is as thick as a severance package for a CEO who just laid off thousands. How many 'valued team members' suddenly become liabilities when the optics of an empty office building look bad to shareholders?