US EditionEmpire of office workers strkes back against RTO mandates
- Researchers from King's College London analyzed over one million Labour Force Survey observations and 50,000 UK working arrangement responses between 2022 and 2024 to study return-to-office attitudes.
- The analysis stemmed from growing employer mandates for full-time office work despite evidence of stable homeworking and increasing worker resistance across this period.
- Findings show only 42% of workers would accept full-time office return, down from 54% in 2022, while half prefer seeking new jobs rather than comply, with women and parents resisting most.
- The lead authors warned that inflexible return-to-office policies could not only undo recent progress but might also lead to difficulties in attracting and keeping talent in a workforce where employees now expect a certain level of flexibility.
- This trend implies that employers adopting hybrid working models could better maintain productivity and talent, while strict RTO policies risk exacerbating turnover and inequality concerns.
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More workers say they'll quit instead of going back to the office full time
The report comes from researchers at King's College London (KCL) and King's Business School. They analyzed over a million data points from the UK government's Labour Force Survey (LFS) and 50,000 responses from the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes (SWAA) UK.Read Entire Article
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