Employment-at-will is a legal doctrine that means that if employees are hired without a written employment contract, they can be fired for a good cause, a bad cause, or no cause at all. This doctrine assumed that employees and employers had equal power: employees could leave jobs they no longer wanted, and employers could fire employees for any reason. However, over time, the public and legislators became aware that employers had economic, political, and social advantages that made the relationship unequal. As a result, laws and court decisions have dramatically curtailed the ability of employers to terminate employees at will. In your opinion, how should the employer/employee relationship be? With the new norm of having many employees working remotely from home, how do you anticipate the changes in employer/employee relationships?

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