The stat Chuck Gose and Jenni Field spend the most time on: 25% of executives and 18% of HR professionals admit they hoped some employees would voluntarily leave because of an RTO policy.
Chuck calls it exactly what it is — weak. If you want someone gone, say so. Using a workplace policy to quietly push people out is not leadership.
The conversation goes further. CEOs with drivers experience a fundamentally different commute than the people they're ordering back to the office. Private elevators built so executives don't have to wait with their own employees. When you've never experienced the friction, it's easy to mandate away other people's flexibility.
and Jenni finish by flipping the question: instead of enforcing a return, what would it take to build a workplace people actually wanted to come to?
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