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Millennials lead the ‘coffee badging’ revolt to protest return to office as businesses push to fill empty seats

Millennials lead the ‘coffee badging’ revolt to protest return to office as businesses push to fill empty seats
business8/6/2025

Badge in, grab a coffee, talk to a few people, and then disappear back to your home office. It’s the migration pattern of the coffee badger.

Are you a “coffee badger”? You know the type, the colleague who shows up at the office just long enough to be seen—typically to swipe their badge, greet colleagues, grab a coffee … and then sneak out at some point to keep working remotely, the way mi... [4496 chars]