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Half of companies with office space say leases are driving their RTO policies


Companies say they want to increase worker collaboration productivity, but many leaders are also influenced by existing office leases.

Half of companies that currently rent office space say that these contracts have affected decisions to bring workers back, with 16% saying they’ve had a “major impact,” according to a recent study from résumé-building platform Resume.org. After consolidating its physical office presence during the pandemic, AT&T may have to improve its facilities and workplaces, a spokesperson previously told Fortune. “The folks that are fine to return to the office have been heading back in,” one of the study’s authors, Stanford economist Nick Bloom previously told Fortune.

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