-- Late last night, news broke that WWE had mandated that all staff are expected back at the company headquarters effective Monday, May 1 after spending the last few years either working from home exclusively or working in a hybrid fashion. To no one's surprise, the response to the company wide email that Nick Khan sent has been largely negative.
-- PWInsiderelite.com reports that the biggest problem employees have with the new edict is that it was dropped on them in an email from Khan in the late evening with not much of a transition time before they have to be in office - pretty much three days to get their situation organized. For some staff with young children, it would mean scrambling to find child care or another routine as working from home, they were able to burden some of that responsibility themselves. In short, everyone affected will have to make changes to their lives on short notice in order to be back in the office by Monday.
-- The hybrid model that WWE had been using for the last year or so where employees were working both at home and in the office was a structure that was implemented by Khan himself as well as former co-CEO Stephanie McMahon, who had indicated that this would be the company's permanent model moving forward. With the abrupt change to a full-time, in-office setup, the natural blame has fallen on the return of Vince McMahon, and while it cannot be confirmed, it would make sense that he would want the old school way of having his employees in office.
-- Another reason people are said to be unhappy is that post-COVID, many employees have found that they were far more productive working from home at their own pace, while saving on time that was required to travel to and from the office. One employee noted that when they were previously working in office, they couldn't wait to get out and go home whereas when they shifted to a primarily working from home, they never felt that nor did they have to deal with office politics, traffic, illnesses, etc. The change also comes at a time when many employees are also worried that they may be out of a job soon as the WWE/Endeavor merger finalizes later this year and the two companies consolidate a significant number of redundant positions.
