Maybe going into the office isn't so bad?
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🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
2025 has been the year of getting dragged back to the office for plenty of workers — some part-time, but many full-time in the case of big finance and tech corporations. Thing is, in-person work appeals to many younger workers. Today, we'll hear the perspective of one. Then, the State Department says it will deny visas to five European citizens, including a former top EU official, and domestic production is still adjusting to tariffs.
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe going into the office isn't so bad for a marketplace. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm Subri Benes-Shore in for David Brancaccio. |
| 0:10.7 | In 2025, we saw more and more workers dragged back to the office, at least part-time, but often full-time, especially in finance and tech. |
| 0:19.4 | J.P. Morgan, Amazon, AT&T, Dell, they're all back to five days a week in person. |
| 0:25.7 | But according to research from economists, the New York Fed and several universities, being in the office, |
| 0:31.1 | at least some of the time, has real upsides, particularly for younger workers. |
| 0:36.7 | And many of them want more time in the office. They see it as an |
| 0:40.8 | opportunity. One such worker is 29-year-old Sky Atondo. He is an event coordinator for Milk Studios |
| 0:47.2 | based in Los Angeles. Sky, welcome. Good morning. So can you tell me a little bit about what you do for work? |
| 0:53.9 | Primarily, like Milk Studios, we are a hub for anything to create a space for you to have an event. |
| 1:01.9 | On the back end, it's bringing everyone in and next day we have a shoot, right? |
| 1:05.6 | So it's like we have to make it look like as if an event was never there. |
| 1:10.4 | So my job is basically to protect space and then at the end of the day, to make it look like as if an event was never there. So my job is basically to protect space. |
| 1:13.5 | And then at the end of the day, just make sure to the client's happy. |
| 1:16.4 | So does that mean that you are mostly in person, entirely in person, or remote? |
| 1:21.4 | How does that work for you? |
| 1:22.6 | Up until the event, I'm fully online, but I'm always in office. |
| 1:27.2 | How do you feel about that? Do you prefer that to working remote, or how do you feel? I love it. I joke can always say it's like, it gives you a reason, like, to put a fit on. I do know of people, certain people who would absolutely die if they had to go into the office every day. But you like it. Why do you like it? |
| 1:45.1 | I love the Kiki with the boys and girls, you know? |
| 1:48.6 | There is research that shows that people who work remotely full-time, they get less training, fewer chances to move up or do new work. |
| 1:58.2 | Does that resonate with your experience? Oh, for sure. I don't think |
| 2:02.5 | without being in person, I would have got the mentorship I got from a lot of these guys |
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