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Almost anywhere in the world, the “6-7” hand gesture and the dab are simply nonsensical relics of internet culture. But in public squares and university courtyards across Latin America, these moves are the weapons of choice amongteenagers and college students in a new type of contest: aura farming battles.
“Aura farming”—internet slangfor the act of cultivating clout by doing something that seems effortlessly cool—first gained traction in 2024 following aviral video of Rayyan Arkan Dikha, an 11-year-old Indonesian boydancing atop a boat.
Now it’s gaining traction as something of a spectator sport.
Watch more Fast Company video content hereandread more about how Latin American teens are turning a meme into real-life gatherings.
Why do companies care which days you work from home?
Bank of America has announced a unique change to itshybrid work policy: it willprohibit employees from working remotely on consecutive days.
Starting on September 14, Bank of America staff in hybrid roles will still have two remote days each week, but they can’t be back-to-back. The decision is intended to promote collaboration and optimize the usage of the bank’s real estate by ensuring some employees are in the office every day, a bank spokesperson toldFast Company.
The updates were based on employee feedback and considered the nature of the work performed by affected employees, the spokesperson toldFast Company. Most of Bank of America’s client-facing employees, such as those working at financial centers and in sales, have already returned to the office full time.
Bank of America is not the first company to restrict which days its hybrid workers must be in the office. Apple, for example, has long employed the concept of“anchor” days: hybrid workers attend work in person on Tuesday, Thursday, and a third day determined by their team. In March 2025, Swiss bank UBStold hybrid workersthat one in-office day had to be either Monday or Friday.
One reason for such policies is to solve a real-estate headache created by hybrid work: offices that are packed Tuesday through Thursday and comparatively empty on Mondays and Fridays. Perhaps even more critical is ensuring employees are in the office at the same time as the colleagues they came there to see.
Indeed, Stanford University economist Nicholas Bloom, a leading researcher on remote work,has arguedthat giving employees free rein in choosing their own in-office days can undermine one of the main purposes of coming into the office: interacting with colleagues. A2023 studysupports this view, concluding that companies could improve hybrid arrangements by helping workers facilitate “co-attendance”—i.e., letting them coordinate schedules so colleagues are in the office together.
Overall, the share of Fortune 500 companies offering flexible work policies declined by 11% from Q2 2024 to Q2 2025, while the share requiring employees to be in the office full time nearly doubled, from 13% to 24%, according to the Q2 2025 quarterlyFlex Index report.
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