“At Microsoft, the share of senior employees as a portion of the company’s overall workforce declined more than 5 percentage points after the return-to-office mandate took effect, the researchers found. At Apple, the decline was 4 percentage points, while at SpaceX — the only company of the three to require workers to be fully in-person — the share of senior employees dropped 15 percentage points.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/12/rto-microsoft-apple-spacex/

Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds

In the months following return-to-office mandates, an increased number of senior employees departed Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX, often to work for competitors.

The Washington Post
@histoftech free layoffs is what I am hearing
@blinkygal @histoftech Or brain drain, depending on your perspective, I guess?