A lot of local tech companies are going to be monitoring how this back-to-office move turns out for Dell, which employs thousands of people in Massachusetts. The BBJ has more. … Needless to say, workers won’t be compensated for their hours of daily commutes to and from work. … Sure, restaurants and other businesses that have traditionally catered to office workers are ecstatic by all the recent back-to-office mandates. But they’re not the ones picking up the tab for the commuting hours lost by employees. The workers are. And they’re the ones paying a high price to make sure donut shops thrive.