Matt Garman told staff that returning to the office five days a week would recapture Amazon's pre-pandemic culture.

Even some CEOs who previously praised the flexibility of remote work have started backpedaling, pressuring workers to comply with RTO mandates with threats to track attendance or even fire ...

Goldman Sachs, Boeing, UPS, and Tesla also announced full-time return to office (RTO) mandates this year. Several leading Fortune 500 CEOs cite concerns over culture, productivity, and innovation ...

Just last year, visits to office buildings nationwide remained 36.8% below 2019 levels, and some employers have lost top talent due to their return-to-office (RTO) mandates. To address and ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jennifer Oliva, a 54-year-old who quit her job after receiving an RTO mandate. The following has been edited for length and clarity.

The first big exception to Amazon's strict RTO policy is here. Twitch, the video-streaming company Amazon acquired in 2014, will not be following the new return-to-office mandate, according to an ...

Amazon's strict new RTO policy starts in January. But the company just ended a popular remote-work benefit months before that. In 2021, Amazon gave staff the option to work up to four weeks a year ...

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced to employees last week that they will be expected to work from the office five days a week, starting in 2025. Employees who have grown accustomed to a hybrid work ...

Aristotle Capital International Equity Strategy highlighted stocks like Rentokil Initial plc (NYSE:RTO) in the third quarter 2024 investor letter. Rentokil Initial plc (NYSE:RTO) is a route-based ...

Guy Thornton, founder of Practice Aptitude Tests, told me he believes the RTO policies could prove to do more harm than good for businesses. Thornton cites a 2024 study showing that the hybrid ...