Nearly 40% managers believe their organisation did layoffs because not enough workers quit in response to their company’s RTO mandate. — Getty Images/The New York Times
Bosses have spent the better part of two years summoning their employees back to the office, making remote-loving workers “quiet quit” in protest, while others have threatened to quit for real. But that’s secretly what a significant chunk of CEOs were hoping for.
According to new research from BambooHR, a survey of over 1,500 US managers found that a quarter of C-suite executives hoped for some voluntary turnover among workers after implementing a RTO policy.
