Just as employers are pulling in the reins and summoning employees back to the office to work, those workers are busy searching for jobs that provide flexible work.

HR Dive reports, in fact, that data from hiring lab Indeed show that searches for “remote,” “telecommute” and “work from home” are up a whopping 32 percent year over year, even as employers “want more control over employees' daily work and better collaboration in the office.”

IBM, Best Buy, The Wall Street Journal, Reddit and Aetna have all dialed back on workers' out-of-the-office arrangements, which has not made workers happy—and it could have repercussions on recruiting and retention for some time to come.

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