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The first wave of AT&T's five-day return-to-office mandate started on Monday. Conversations with half a dozen AT&T workers across the country this week indicate it hasn't been off to a smooth start.

History teaches that financial complexity always creeps upward. Lately that trend has reached investor-friendly exchange-traded funds.