The debate back to the office does not see any end in sight. The workers still because the flexible work, and drag the feet that meet RTO, was reported this week. Some workers have suspended such policies have a way that companies say: “Don’t you like it? Stop smoking.”
It turns out that perhaps they are.
Recently Fortune The article, citing a 2024 survey of more than 1,500 American managers, found that a quarter of C-Suite executives expected a voluntary turnover after introducing a RTO policy. One in five human resources leaders went further, admitting that their strictest office requirements were designed to expel staff.
Then, when the article began to make the rounds on Reddit last week, the general lack of surprise was the count, and the renewed discussion about the suspicion of workers that RTO goes beyond the “Fosting Collaboration”.
“This belongs to the subnet” No Shit Sherlock, “wrote a user. “This should have quite obvious bone for anyone with the ability to think objectively,” added another. One suggested: “The rest simply does not admit it yet.”
His skepticism is displaced. In fact, business leaders throughout the United States told the Beige Book of the Federal Reserve that they are depositing in the requirements in the office to cut the staff to cut silence and cheap, everything without having to interpret the bad.
More than half of Fortune 100’s colleagues now have a full -time office requirement, and research shows that almost 3 out of 10 companies will require five days a week in the office at the end of 2025. That is even though almost half of the workers warn IFT’s work.
For some, the ability to work from home is an advantage equivalent to 8% of their salary, and it is not something they are prepared to give up without a fight.
But those who threaten to quit smoking can have less negotiation power than they believe. A massive exodus triggered by RTO might seem that it would not be the best for companies, but in fact, the opposite may be true. Forcing the unhappy employees to quit smoking provides compensation that seek to reduce their workforce with an easy way out, all without the need to pay the compensation packages and the bad press linked to dismissals.
However, instead of skillfully killing two birds with a stone, RTO demands, as a tactic to reduce workforce, or simply drain the talent together with morality among removal employees.
At a time when employees are already disconnected at work, there is something to say about a commercial strategy that is all stick, and that there is no carrot.