{"id":77749,"date":"2025-08-19T12:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77749\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:37:09","slug":"why-bosses-are-back-in-charge-and-the-workers-who-can-rebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77749\/","title":{"rendered":"Why bosses are back in charge \u2013 and the workers who can rebel\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No more Mr Nice Guy. Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic forced employers to embrace empathy and flexibility, bosses are back to laying down the law.<\/p>\n<p>Tough talk is everywhere: JPMorgan\u2019s Jamie Dimon blasted remote workers for being hard to reach on Fridays, while Google co-founder Sergey Brin insisted in a memo that \u201c60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"-_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Financial Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No more Mr Nice Guy. Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic forced employers to embrace empathy and flexibility,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[84,1371,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-77749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}