Greg Daniels holds the fate of the Office reboot in his hands

I can't tell whether fans would want more of it, and when I say more of it, I don't think it would be the same characters. I think it would just be sort of like an extension of the universe, you know what I mean, like the way [The] Mandalorian is like an extension of Star Wars. But I don't know if that would be something people would want or not, it's hard to tell. [The Office] was such a wonderful and rare experience that obviously you don't want to just go back to it and kind of possibly disappoint people when right now, they couldn't be happier about it. And so I kind of feel like that would happen with a new show, but it would take a long time to do that. And it's like, do you want to wade through all the negativity, in the beginning, to get to the good part at the end? I don't know.

While many people would love to see a reboot in production, The Officer star Steve Carell thinks the show wouldn't work in the current environment. Speaking in an interview with Esquire magazine in 2018, Carell said:

Because 'The Office' is on Netflix and replaying, a lot more people have seen it recently. And I think because of that there's been a resurgence in interest in the show, and talk about bringing it back. But apart from the fact that I just don't think that's a good idea, it might be impossible to do that show today and have people accept it the way it was accepted 10 years ago. The climate's different. I mean, the whole idea of that character, Michael Scott, so much of it was predicated on inappropriate behavior. I mean, he's certainly not a model boss. A lot of what is depicted on that show is completely wrong-minded. That's the point, you know? But I just don't know how that would fly now. There's a very high awareness of offensive things today — which is good, for sure. But at the same time, when you take a character like that too literally, it doesn't really work.

We can all agree that Steve Carell is accurate in his assessment of how well-received the reboot would be if it were to be produced in the same manner. Many actors, such as John Krasinski and B. J. Novak, made their name from starring on the show, but in the current period, a reboot can have the opposite impact on an up-and-coming actor.