The quarter of the bosses admit that the return to the office were intended to stop the staff

According to Bamboohr research, an investigation of more than 1,500 US managers revealed that a quarter of C-Suite leaders hoped for a voluntary turnover among workers after the implementation of an RTO policy.

Meanwhile, one in five out of five in five admitted that his current policy was supposed to stop leaving the staff.

This is why the report concludes what many workers have been suspecting for a long time: “RTO mandates are disguised layoffs”.

Mandates returning to the office did not leave as hoped

It is not a secret for anyone that rigid office policies have not landed well with workers. Amazon is Perhaps the most documented example of the ugly RTO battle.

About 30,000 employees signed a Protestant petition against the office mandate of the company, and more than 1,800 have committed to getting out of their work to take a stand. When the technology giant finally demanded that workers show the office for five days a week, many staff have said Fortune They immediately updated their LinkedIn profiles and “Apply” for new jobs. “Honestly, I lost so much confidence in Amazon’s leadership at this stage,” said a person.

Research has shown that 99% of companies with RTO mandates experienced a drop in engagement.

Meanwhile, separate data show that almost half of companies with return to the office have experienced a higher level of attrition of employees than expected, and 29% of companies applying offices are struggling with recruitment.

Even Bamboohr’s research stressed that almost a third of workers would plan to leave their positions if they were forced to return to the vertical towers of their business.

But in reality, many workers do not follow such threats – and less who have left that the bosses hoped.

Almost 40% of all the survey managers said they thought that their organization had been set up because the not sufficient workers resigned in response to the RTO mandate of their business.

A version of this story originally published on Fortune.com July 24, 2024.

More RTO mandates:

• “ Hushed Hybrid ”: Even if RTO mandates develop, workers still do not fully appear in the office – panel managers are too exhausted to apply policies
• The CEO of Robinhood admits that his RTO call was bad and now says that managers must be at the office 5 days a week: “Your manager has more pain than you”
• More than 60% of workers have planned to change jobs due to rigid RTO policies and would take a salary reduction for better flexible work options