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Dropbox CEO: RTO Efforts Can Be 'Dumb' and 'Unproductive'

"We can be a lot less dumb than forcing people back into a car three days a week," the Dropbox CEO said on a Fortune podcast.

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston says RTO is like trying to get people back into malls and movie theaters. Houston, the CEO of Dropbox, equated office-first working arrangements to other relics of a pre-pandemic era in an episode of Fortune's "Leadership Next" podcast released Wednesday. At a time when many of Dropbox's tech peers have mandated a return to office in some form, the company remains optimistic that it can accomplish just as much remotely.

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