📊 WFH based on work facility

Inside: Cresta is hiring in engineering, sales, and customer success. Plus: Millennials leading the "coffee badging" revolt, Samsung and Microsoft forcing more office time, WFH allowance by facility, people continue to ignore office mandates, and more.

Good Morning,

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks in the modern job market.

In the Fed’s job report on August 1st, the job gains reported in previous months were revised downward sharply — meaning that far fewer people actually gained new jobs, versus what was told to the public.

And on Friday, OpenAI’s release of GPT-5 was seen as a modest, yet lackluster, improvement upon previous models. What was anticipated to be a gamechanging technology release with AGI may have instead proven that AI’s impending impact on our livelihoods may have been overstated this whole time.

Also, a LinkedIn trick has been making the rounds online again, as shared in this TikTok video. Users can manipulate the URL of a LinkedIn job search to search for jobs posted in a time frame less than 24 hours ago.

What a world!

COMPANY SPOTLIGHT
  • Cresta provides AI-powered software that helps contact centers enhance customer interactions by offering real-time coaching, insights, and automation for agents.

  • 39 open roles, primarily in Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success.

  • Cresta’s career page says: “While some roles have in-office expectations, many are fully remote. No matter where you work, we focus on helping you stay connected, supported, and set up for success.”

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NEED TO KNOW

Remote work headlines:

  • Programs that attract remote workers to smaller cities have continued to thrive post-pandemic (Wall Street Journal)

  • More data shows people are ignoring RTO mandates (Inc.)

  • Microsoft is considering a more strict office policy, which would go into effect in January 2026 (Business Insider)

  • Millennials are leading the “coffee badging” revolt (Fortune)

  • Samsung just rolled out a tracking tool that allows managers to see when their employees are “coffee badging” and spending less time in the office (Business Insider)

  • JPMorgan, whose CEO has been outspoken about making employees come into the office, makes employees pay for access at its onsite gym in NYC Headquarters (New York Post)

STATS

WFH allowance by facility

While it’s obvious that office workers will usually have more WFH optionality than others, it’s interesting to see the permission variance among employees who are primarily based in other work environments.

WFH Research — August 2025

The team at WFH Research found that among those who are primarily working from hospitals or healthcare facilities, they can work remotely about 23% of the time. Among those in retail, workers can work remotely 22% of the time.

These are obviously averages, but it provides an interesting look into what managers and executives are permitting outside of traditional corporate office work.

And in further review, they found that the difference in permission between those with and without college degrees was negligible.

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