RTO - Must be refreshing to have real leaders in leadership.

Return-to-office pushes are largely fading--but one large company has completely reversed its mandate.

H&R Block--the tax preparation company headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri--announced a companywide hybrid policy in March 2021 that would bring its approximately 2,000 corporate employees at the time into the office from Tuesday through Thursday. But the executive team started to reexamine the mandate, taking into account the preferences of high performers toward remote as well as new remote hires, according to an April report from Fortune.

"The combination of those steps forced us to say: What are our real beliefs on this? And why are we considering asking people to return to the office so many days of the week?" CEO Jeff Jones told Fortune. "And the answer to that question was: There isn't a good reason we would do that."

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Remote work is a bargaining chip. Any company can play any mindgame they want, and all another company has to do to take their high performers is offer remote work. Cat is out of the bag, they can stop trying now

I look forward to RTO. The old moms on my team always have some excuse not to do work

When do you know you're in trouble? When your company lost 20% of it's value a couple of weeks prior and one of the first things that's brought up in the company wide town hall is how excited they are that our internal web site will now accept your pronouns.

Sometimes it just seems like your 'leadership' team is running the company based on the articles they are reading on the corporate jet on their way to accepting another participation award. Is that worth 20m / yr?

@bwp+1t2zzGni: correct, see this: "Study finds a quarter of bosses hoped RTO would make employees quit", the cat's out of the bag:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/09/rto_quit_study/

cvs motto is different my friend. they are playing a cheap trick to see how many will resign or not comply. This will save them immensely as they need not pay severance. its a pathetic move by big heads. I mean, if you really want to improve collaboration, you could have said, one day a week in the office is needed so that do some team building yada yada yada..

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