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 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 jup, sounds an awful lot like "4 in 8 students have a below average intelligence!!11!!"