Still in the World

Christ’s kingdom work continues, but now we need to do the heavy lifting.

In the tentative post-COVID world of mid-2021, major corporations began to strategize about how to get employees back to the office. It was a process that evolved over several years and is still going on today.

But in 2021–2022, the push to get staffers back in-house was hot and heavy. Elon Musk told employees to show up for a minimum of 40 hours a week, and if anyone was unhappy with this, they should look for employment elsewhere. Most were not happy. After 12 to 18 months of working remotely from home wearing nothing but fuzzy polka dot pajamas or business wear for the upper half of the torso (suitable for Zoom meetings) and boxer shorts on the lower half, many workers resisted.

Like employees at Amazon, Google and other ginormous corporations, Apple staffers were affected as well. One day, they found a churlish memo in their email inboxes from Apple CEO Tim Cook notifying them of a new policy that required all staff to return to the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, as...