Leaders are perhaps experiencing more resistance than they had anticipated.
Amazon is perhaps the most documented example of how ugly the RTO battle can get: Around 30,000 employees signed a petition protesting the company’s in-office mandate, and more than 1,800 pledged to walk out from their jobs to take a stand.
The tech giant is still complaining that workers are dodging the three-day in-office mandate, over a year after it was announced.
Exactly what my employer did during the pandemic. Hired more people and reduced the amount of office leased office space. Would be impossible to call is back into office now because we simply wouldn’t all fit.
No sign of that changing either. They announced just last week that they’re letting the lease on a large chunk of our remaining offices lapse next year, and have already sub-leased out about half of that. We’re fully remote for good at this point.