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Return-to-office mandates hurt employee retention, productivity, survey says


Survey of 4,400 US employees who are at least 18 years old.

Cisco, which the report notes doesn't have an RTO mandate, tries to lure people to the office with things like hackathons, career coaching, and team gatherings, for example. More specifically, the report's authors concluded that employees who are allowed to choose between in-person, remote, or hybrid work are three times more likely to want to stay at their company. A March survey of 1,504 full-time employees, including 504 HR workers, found that some firms have issued RTO mandates in the hopes of making people quit.

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