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Leaders are perhaps experiencing more resistance than they had anticipated.

Amazon is perhaps the most documented example of how ugly the RTO battle can get: Around 30,000 employees signed a petition protesting the company’s in-office mandate, and more than 1,800 pledged to walk out from their jobs to take a stand.

The tech giant is still complaining that workers are dodging the three-day in-office mandate, over a year after it was announced.

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[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

This is the only correct answer

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 months ago

What about "we have this massive office and only 3 people use it" and "we want to micro manage our employees"

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

The complex interplay of macro and micro

[-] Sc00ter@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

There's some of that. I know companies in my city were given tax breaks for hosting their office building there. The theory is, the business brings more people into the area who will be spending money on lunch/happy hour/gas/etc. The tax income of that is more than the tax benefit they offer the company.

Well, people stop coming to the office, and their tax benefit of the employees being in the city dries up. The city was threatening the companies tax benefit if the people didn't come back, and thus, RTO (in my city, anyway).

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Never thought about that angle, makes sense though

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I agree that those were side benefits of RTO, but it's only stopping because they are planning to start buying up and hoarding tech workers again when the interest rate drops.

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