return to office

Asking employees to come back to the office like the old days is the same as trying to ‘jam the toothpaste back in the tube,’ workforce expert says | Fortune

January 2, 2026 · Business

Return-to-office mandates continue to feel like high-level math equations that even the business world’s brightest can’t solve. Amazon, JPMorgan, and AT&T are among the most recent companies to require a full-time…

How RTO Plans That Accommodate Working Parents Can Help Retain Staff

December 27, 2025 · Business

Renewed or stiffer return to office (RTO) rules are often met with protest from employees who cherish the flexibility of remote options. But new data indicates the greatest…

Amazon’s Return To Office Chickens Come Home To Roost

October 23, 2025 · Business

If your week began like mine, Monday morning was a parade of broken web pages and non-working apps. The root of the problem was that Amazon’s AWS premier…

New Data Says Women and Black Employees Are the Biggest Losers Under RTO and Trump Policies

October 15, 2025 · Business

Ongoing workplace and political policy trends are disrupting, or even eliminating millions of U.S. jobs. But recent data suggests those changes penalize two historically disadvantaged groups of people…

How Tighter RTO Rules May Cost Employers High Performer Pet Owners

October 13, 2025 · Business

Company announcements of reinforced return to office (RTO) rules often spark vociferous protests from employees who have come to cherish more flexible working arrangements. But a recent report…

Remote Employees Remain Highly Productive, a New Survey Says

October 6, 2025 · Business

Here’s one in the eye for managers who insist on strict return-to-office mandates, despite sometimes ferocious staff pushback. A new study found very high levels of productivity at…

Quarter of bosses admit return-to-office mandates were meant to make staff quit | Fortune

September 30, 2025 · Business

Bosses have spent the better part of two years summoning their employees back to the office, making remote-loving workers “quiet quit” in protest, while others have threatened to…

NBCUniversal Sets 4-Day-A-Week Return To Office Plan

September 9, 2025 · Entertainment

NBCUniversal is phasing in a mandate for employees to work at least four days a week in the office. News of the updated policy due to take effect…

Is RTO Hurting Your Employee Morale? Manager Burnout Could Be to Blame

September 1, 2025 · Business

Return to office (RTO) mandates aren’t popular, as report after report shows. Whether they are announced in a my way or the highway style, like Amazon’s Andy Jassy…

1 in 5 workers are ignoring their companies’ RTO mandates

October 15, 2024 · Business

Regardless of how many days per week workers—or their bosses—want to be in the office, nobody likes being told what to do. Case in point: nearly 1 in…

Walmart Employees Push Back Against Return-to-Office Mandate | Entrepreneur

August 2, 2024 · Business

Walmart announced in May that it would require hundreds of remote workers to work in person at its Bentonville, Arkansas corporate headquarters, and other hubs in Hoboken, NJ…

Tech CEOs are backtracking on their RTO mandates—now, just 3% of firms asking workers to go into the office full-time

August 2, 2024 · Business

Many tech firms have spent the last two years summoning workers back into the office—all the while threatening them with layoffs. Even Zoom reverted to in-person working last…

Businesses are using ‘sociologists, psychologists, and anthropologists’ to get staff back to the office

June 26, 2024 · Business

Bosses have tried everything to convince staff they’ll be happier working in the office than at home, from free lunches to subsidized commutes. When that hasn’t worked, they’ve…

Tata Consultancy Services cuts bonuses for employees who aren’t in the office 5 days a week

April 22, 2024 · Business

Tata Consultancy Services, the main arm of Indian industrial giant Tata, is reportedly clamping down on office-shy workers by cutting their bonuses and hovering the threat of being…

L’Oréal just went there: Mandated Fridays in the office

February 5, 2024 · Business

Workers at French cosmetics giant L’Oréal have been back in the office three days per week for over a year now. But, company brass has decided, that’s no…

Bank of America Threatens Employees Who Don’t Return to Office | Entrepreneur

January 26, 2024 · Business

Bank of America has instituted a strict return to office policy for employees that threatens “disciplinary action” to those who don’t comply, according to documents seen by the…

CEOs will finally admit next year that return-to-office mandates didn’t move the productivity needle, future of work experts predict

December 26, 2023 · Business

Happy holidays, remote workers. In software firm Scoop’s 2024 Flex Report, which includes flexible work predictions from an array of industry experts, one idea bubbled to prominence: CEOs…

Imposing harsh return-to-office mandates on employees was like taking candy from a baby. But CEOs will have to answer to their own bosses–investors

December 8, 2023 · Business

Today’s smart investors are not just looking at financials–they’re diving deep into a company’s culture, including flexible work policies, recognizing them as a significant indicator of future success.…

Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to 'get butt back to office' after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies

December 2, 2023 · Business

Chip manufacturer Broadcom wrote the latest chapter in the long story of return-to-office tensions between bosses and employees. After completing its $69 billion acquisition of cloud computing company…

Millennials stand apart from Gen Zers and boomers on work-from-home, and kids have a lot to do with it

November 26, 2023 · Business

The return-to-office debates show no sign of abating. While employees who violate Amazon’s return-to-office mandate will be blocked from promotions—or even fired—ones at Nvidia are free to work…