Is remote work gone for good? More Canadians are commuting

First, they forced office workers to stay home, and we became acquainted with Microsoft Teams, comfortably, in athleisure wear.

Then they told some of us to come back, but only sometimes, and we had to remember how to wear pants just to have Teams meetings in half-empty offices.

Now, some employers in both the private and public sector are mandating that many workers have to come back full time.

As a growing number of Canadians once again find themselves cramming public transit and clogging highways to get to their workplaces, you might be wondering: is remote work gone for good?

"It's very hard to see employees winning this particular battle, because the leverage really belongs to the employer," said Opeyemi Akanbi, an assistant professor in communications at Toronto Metropolitan