My company did a forced RTO. Moral dropped. In one category, it dropped to 14%. We couldn’t hire anyone and people were quitting. Our president kept saying “We will never return to WFH.”

Less than 6 months after he said that, we went fully remote. The whole RTO thing lasted about a year before they gave up.

So they want to make their employees sick and have proof but continue anyway?

Well, 90% isn’t very statistically significant.

The RTO mandate is being made by management - people with usually 15+ years experience or more.

They’ve only known office life. It’s the security blanket.

The people most affected are these RTO mandates are people who have only known hybrid or WFH, people with <6 years work experience.

This is a culture clash. Mgmt can’t manage without seeing people actually working.

Numerous studies have shown no significant productivity improvement by working in the office.

Honestly my morale would go down if I had to go to JP Morgan's offices.

That's the point. Workers with morale get self-respect, and then they start thinking of themselves as deserving a life. Gotta crush that down if you want to exploit them to the max.

No shit...