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Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away


"It’s easier to manage a team that’s happy.”

A study analyzing Apple, Microsoft, and SpaceX suggests that return to office (RTO) mandates can lead to a higher rate of employees, especially senior-level ones, leaving the company, often to work at competitors. In this paper, we provide causal evidence that RTO mandates at three large tech companies—Microsoft, SpaceX, and Apple—had a negative effect on the tenure and seniority of their respective workforce. Dell also started tracking VPN usage this week and has told workers who work remotely full time that they can't get a promotion.

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