I think the second picture is good evidence that RTO mandates are often attrition campaigns. It’s unlikey leaders, especilly of large corportions who do internal polling, are unaware of these attitudes. If they know this and mandate RTO, then they expect attrition and therefore are either OK with it or want to achieve it.

I’ve been working from home full-time since 2019, and there’s no way I’d go back. I’m happier, I get more done, and I’m not spending a chunk of my day commuting. Fortunately, I work for a small company with great bosses, who haven’t spent a fortune on office space they’re desperate to justify.

What field?

Programming consultant here, luckily got contract from companies hundreds/thousands miles away, so for me it will be WFH until retreat.

We provide websites and marketing tools for realtors, I run the help desk.

I’m just waiting for someone to Mario Party their boss after a return to office mandate. It would be deserved.

I had a recruiter (in the US) message me about some jobs. They’re all on-site 6 (six!) days a week. That should be a crime and everyone involved in that banished from the land. This wasn’t climate change work or anything important. It was like ai fintech nonsense.

Ah the famed ChineseAmerican 996 work schedule! I read somewhere that labour law is getting railroaded in tech since Trump’s return.

Return-to-Work

Blatant propaganda in a news headline continuing throughout the article. These people are already working. It’s “Return-to-Office”

Further down In the article.

People would rather stay home.

People would rather work from home.

Propaganda is rarely so obvious.

I never got to work from home until a couple of months in 2025 because of an office space move. It was pretty nice. Most people didn’t get much of it though.

Return to office = return to distractions for most people.

If you want people to do productive work, you need to put them in an environment that gives them that opportunity.

If that’s an office, fine. But if that’s at home (a.k.a “Home office”), or at a cafe, or on the beach, that should be fine, too!

Did anyone think we (the workers) were going to win this fight? LOL.

I mean I appreciate the frustration about it. RTO is stupid and study after study proves that.

That said, we all knew the return to the office was coming. Our hope is the generations younger than I put a collective middle finger up as they’ve been doing and force change.

If you look at the studies, and mark my word HR is, anything younger than GenX it falls of a cliff for workers wanting to come in the office. They don’t care about the money. They’re already fucked, why would they want to be fucked 5 days in a office and still be fucked?

Manager at a big tech company here. I’ve been fortunate to have been WFH since 2012, and my team is a diverse set of amazing developers from all across North America. Our company has started taking the position that new hires should be in office, and anyone close enough to an office should be in office — so I’ve informed my staff that if any of them gets any sort of demand they return to office to let me know so I can help void that as quickly as possible. I won’t be in their office (I don’t even live in a city that has an office…), and neither will any of their coworkers, so having any of them report to an office would be purely performative.

We’re developers. Many are somewhat introverted, and all are amazing with technology and already know how to use online technologies to work and collaborate together. I’ll continue to fight tooth-and-nail to keep them from having to return to an office (unless they want to).

Fortunately I have the support of my VPs above me. They know my team is very high performance with tons of institutional knowledge and don’t want to upset the apple cart.

There are those of us out there with some power who are doing what we can to fight the good fight!

I prefer to work in the office, but if my company decides that everyone has to come I would start looking for a new job. I like to come to the office and being the only one here, it’s reminds me of studying on the library in college.

From what I’ve heard, for every company doing back-to-the-office, there’s one expanding out work from home. So, it’s holding pretty steady. The only thing they mention here, unless I missed it on a skim, is what the big banks are doing.

Me too. I save so much time not polluting and commuting. I get like 10 hours a week back.

Not to mention I can take care of home stuff at lunch which is nice.

Climate Crisis? Cost of living crisis? Fuck you, corporate landlords have bills to pay and banks want their money back. Get back to your commutes. The markets demand it.

Now let’s give the space to the soon-to-be-tazered economists to chime in about how efficient the market is.