My group, and another entire operational organization under Peter are also “hitting pause and not going back and forth until management makes a decision in a few months”. So to me it seems managers are still scared to let people WFH fearing retribution from a Charlie. Something is up.
This seems no different than applying in the new portal but behind the scenes upper management had already blocked it. Or told people to not even bother to apply.
I think in the US WFH still won’t be allowed, but was intentionally done to address the pending lawsuits in the UK.
Charlie isn’t going to go quietly on this. I guarantee it.