Scott FrancisFeb 21, 2024

“In other words: Forcing employees to work in an office doesn’t benefit companies, but does harm the lives of employees — at least in the short term.

More to the point: Most companies cannot show actual monetary benefits from RTO mandates. But most employees can show actual and significant monetary costs from RTO mandates.

In essence, these kinds of mandates represent a transfer of wealth from employees that their employers don’t even benefit from.”

Great piece from @MikeElgan https://www.computerworld.com/article/3712843/the-hidden-high-cost-of-return-to-office-mandates.html

The hidden high cost of return-to-office mandates

If you force employees to commute and work in an office every day, you can expect to lose your best employees.

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@darkuncle @MikeElgan

As a white collar worker living in a suburb but working downtown in a major US City, returning to the office for me would be a $250/month raw cost (monthly train ticket) as well as an unpaid time cost of about 2-3 hours per day for commute to and from the office.

I interviewed with another company that was offering a hybrid office/WFH position and calculated that I would need a salary boost of about 20% to compensate for the additional costs to go work in an office.

Feb 21, 2024 at 3:10pmWeb