We’re now in the find out stage of mandatory return to office.
Unispace found that nearly half (42%) of companies with return-to-office mandates witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than they had anticipated. And almost a third (29%) of companies enforcing office returns are struggling with recruitment. In other words, employers knew the mandates would cause some attrition, but they weren’t ready for the serious problems that would result.
@carnage4life those numbers seem a lot like "normal distributions" to me.
Reverse the statements.
58% of companies experienced expected or lower than expected attrition after implementing RTO strategies.
That sounds great. More than half of companies got what they wanted.
71% of companies enforcing RTO are not struggling with recruitment.
Again, that sounds like expected value.
Obviously, "attrition" is really hard on the actual humans. But this (sadly) is encouraging for companies.
@gatesvp @carnage4life Why should this be a normal distribution? Pre-covid, almost 100% of workers did no remote work. It was assumed that in person work was necessary to do the job, and workers in general hadn't even considered whether they had a preference to express.
It's good to *know* that many workers do in fact have a preference, so the job market can accommodate it.
@robotistry @carnage4life "normal distribution" here is the technical term for the distribution of success and failure from the company's perspective.
A bunch of companies undertook a project: RTO.
Some will succeed, some will fail. That's a normal distribution. Based on the numbers presented, well over half succeeded. For most projects of this sort, that's a good success rate.
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