What Is ‘Task Masking’? Young Workers Retaliate Against Return-to-Office Mandates With a Viral Strategy.

Six in 10 exclusively remote employees say they are extremely likely to search for employment elsewhere if they are not allowed remote flexibility, according to research from Gallup.

The preference for remote work hasn’t stopped some of the U.S.’s largest employers, including Amazon and JPMorgan, from implementing return-to-office mandates — even in the face of parking shortages and petitions.

Related: What Is a ‘Lazy Girl Job’? New TikTok Trend Empowers Women to Work However They Want

Now, there’s another unintended consequence: the viral TikTok trend where young people perform in-office productivity without increasing their output at all, dubbed “task masking” by career-services platform career.io.

“Task masking” activities can include typing loudly and

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