Good morning. Welcome, Naxios today.

It's Tuesday, August 23rd. I'm Nyla Boudou.

Here's what we're covering. Why a beloved American cuisine

has to evolve to survive. Plus, Dr. Fauci will sue no longer be

the nation's COVID doctor. But first,

the end of the strictly in-office world.

That's today's one big thing.

CEOs telling employees to return to the office are facing major pushback.

This week, a group of Apple workers started a petition calling for flexible work schedules to continue.

That was in response to a memo from CEO Tim Cook,

mandating that many workers do three days a week in the office starting this fall.

Naxios' Emily Pack has been watching this trend.

Hey, Emily. Hey. Emily, so how are big companies in general

handling this coming back to the office? Is Apple an outlier in this three day

a week requirement? No. Companies are confused about returning

to work and what they can ask workers to do and what they actually want from workers.

For a while, companies were trying to sort of lure employees back to the office

to gently encourage them to come back with perks and food and stuff like that.

That phase is over. Some companies are doing what Apple is doing

and trying to mandate a certain number of days in the office.

That's not really working either.

Do we have data on how much work in general has shifted to home since the pandemic?

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