LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) — The battle over Ford’s return-to-office mandate didn’t end in the break room. It lit up company screens throughout the workplace.

Meeting room monitors across company buildings were hijacked on October 2nd to display a blunt protest: an image of CEO Jim Farley with a red “no” symbol over his face and the words “F*** RTO.”

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Employees told The Autopian that the defacement spread beyond headquarters to affiliated facilities like Ford Performance and Roush Racing.

The breach comes as Ford enforces a four-day in-office requirement for salaried staff, a mandate introduced in June. Many employees say they had built their lives around the company’s earlier embrace of remote work and now face long commutes and family disruptions. “We were promised remote work was here to stay,” one worker said, “and people built their lives around that.”

The company, for its part, insists face time is critical to its future. 

“We believe working together in person on a day-to-day basis will help accelerate Ford’s transformation,” a company spokesperson said.