I keep saying it. You always lose the best and brighest first. They can easily move to other companies that are more flexible and will allow them to be remote or hybrid. You end up turning the whole damn place to shit because only the lower skill/effort/shitty employees stay because its job security. **Another unintended consequence of RTO is that while companies hope underperforming people will leave, some of the best talent in a business or organization will go too.** Archive: https://archive.today/Flo5h From the post: >>Return-to-office mandates are emerging as one of the most contentious of the post-pandemic work trends that U.S. employees have faced. Last year, Gartner data identified that 63% of HR leaders reported an increase in expectations for employees to return to the office. That was even from those organizations which had made a firm commitment to remote working during the COVID-19 crisis.