January 19, 2025 Workers are being called back to the office full-time. Can Gen Z handle RTO? Just one week into 2025, JPMorgan announced a five-day return-to-office mandate. Mere months before, AT&T, Dell, and Amazon did the same, despite employee pushback. The era of hybrid work appears to have come to a sudden halt for … Continue reading Workers are being called back to the office full-time. Can Gen Z handle RTO?
Category Archives: Back-To-Office
Why are we still talking about return to office?
Bosses have been trying to make employees return to the office for years now. Why are we still having the same conversation? BY Kathleen Davis Think of how much has happened since March 2020 when millions of employees started working from home: Two presidential elections, war and humanitarian crises, countless climate disasters, a roller-coaster economy of … Continue reading Why are we still talking about return to office?
NLRB accuses Grindr of using a return-to-office mandate to upend a unionization drive
NLRB accuses Grindr of using a return-to-office mandate to upend a unionization drive Around half of its staff are said to have quit over a relocation requirement and the end of a remote work policy. kris holt Updated Tue, Nov 5, 2024 SOPA Images via Getty Images The National Labor Relations Board … Continue reading NLRB accuses Grindr of using a return-to-office mandate to upend a unionization drive
Forcing workers back into the office could be risky. Here’s why
July 29, 2024 Forcing workers back into the office could be risky. Here’s why Arguments for returning to the office often appear driven by manager preference and experience. BY The Conversation Tesco, Boots and Barclays have joined the growing number of companies trying to force employees back to the office after several years of remote … Continue reading Forcing workers back into the office could be risky. Here’s why
The return-to-office debate is settled: Offices are busier than ever
July 22, 2024 The return-to-office debate is settled: Offices are busier than ever A new “office busyness index” shows growing usage, even on Mondays. BY Nate Berg Offices around the country are slowly but steadily seeing workers return. According to a new set of monthly office occupancy data, offices are increasingly busy, with “busyness” up in … Continue reading The return-to-office debate is settled: Offices are busier than ever
Why you should rethink return-to-office mandates
May 22, 2024 Why you should rethink return-to-office mandates Many employees prefer remote work and are more productive, though it requires some creative leadership. BY Mike Gianoni This March, four years after many businesses began to operate remotely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dell announced to its workforce that any employee who wants a promotion … Continue reading Why you should rethink return-to-office mandates
The return-to-office debate may settling down—in a way that makes everyone unhappy
By Jared Lindzon After years of flip-flopping on remote and in-person work policies, most knowledge workers and employers seem to have reached a hybrid compromise, but questions remain as to whether the truce will last. While not every worker wants to work from home and not every employer is demanding a return to the … Continue reading The return-to-office debate may settling down—in a way that makes everyone unhappy
What should I wear back to the office? It’s okay to be confused in the era of RTO
By Shalene Gupta September 19, 2023 CEOs might be debating the return to office, but workers everywhere are debating a far more compelling topic: the return of pants. After all, isn’t fashion just a reflection of current events? A new survey by International Workplace Group (IWG) asked 1,000 hybrid workers about how their sense … Continue reading What should I wear back to the office? It’s okay to be confused in the era of RTO
Why most managers don’t want to come back to the office full-time
By Yasmin Gagne August 24, 2023 This week, contributing writer Shalene Gupta came on to the Most Innovative Companies podcast to discuss the results of a new study from Deloitte about workers’ desire to return to the office. Surprise, surprise– though many CEOs in the financial industry want their workers to go to the … Continue reading Why most managers don’t want to come back to the office full-time
Workplaces are returning to the pre-pandemic status quo
By Reshma Saujani and Carol Juel January 28, 2023 Driven by persistent inflation and fears of a looming recession, employers are slashing their budgets, with many opting to cut the exact employee benefits that would help moms who were disproportionately driven out of the workforce during the pandemic. A recent survey from the Society … Continue reading Workplaces are returning to the pre-pandemic status quo