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.
I end up getting in late and leaving early on the days I’m in office and yet somehow I still get good reviews. That should be impossible according to c-level execs that are never in office, come and go as they please, and hold these thrice-rescheduled-hastily-engineered all hands meetings where there are never updates to the things they say they’re working on. They just say they’ve put a large group of middle-management on it right before they introduce yet another half-assed convoluted system to measure employee producivity that they don’t even understand. Gotta fire some people because the plan the execs heard about on a retreat didn’t work at all and they lost a bunch of money so they need cash to build that AI in order to fire more people!