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Scott Francis Feb 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.

Computerworld

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Erwin Rossen 🔸Feb 21, 2024

@darkuncle @MikeElgan Besides monetary benefits, there are other benefits, like company culture. In our company, the way colleagues interact with each other and help each other is one of the main reasons people like to work here. Most colleagues say they enjoy going to the office, but only when there are also other colleagues. Therefore, the policy to come at least twice a week to the office is there to protect the company culture.

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Matt Palmer

@erwinrossen if "company culture" is improved by co-location, and is of benefit to the company, that should show up in financial performance.

@darkuncle @MikeElgan