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.

https://fortune.com/2023/08/01/research-damaging-results-mandated-return-to-office-worse-than-we-thought-rto-remote-work-careers-leadership-gleb-tsipursky/

We’re now finding out the damaging results of the mandated return to the office–and it’s worse than we thought

Three compelling reports show just how damaging RTO mandates are turning out to be.

Fortune
@carnage4life I honestly find the numbers to be surprisingly low, but I guess there's a lot of people still under job blackmail.

@oblomov @carnage4life

A solution?

To convert the unused office space into apartments for employees.

Yes, I know it is welfare capitalism¹, but since nobody seems to have the guts to start to expropriate companies, it's better than the current situation, and perhaps landlords will understand they can't raise their requests forever.

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¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_capitalism

Welfare capitalism - Wikipedia