Author: vijayanandajedartbiq@gmail.com

There is a scene playing out in offices across the world right now. A 26-year-old analyst sits across from a 54-year-old VP in a performance review. The VP tells her she needs to be more “present”, code for fewer remote days. She nods, opens her laptop that evening, and updates her resume. She is not disgruntled. She is simply applying a logic her generation has internalized completely: if this company will not meet her where she is, another one will. This is not an isolated anecdote. It is the texture of how an entire generation is moving through the workplace,…