Mandating On-Site Work Could Hurt Employee Retention
HRDive, Tuesday, July 11,2023
As more companies require workers to return to the office, employees may be more likely to leave, a new study shows.
More than half of companies are now mandating or strongly encouraging their workers to come to the office, yet 80% of employees are still working remote or hybrid schedules, according to a June 30 report from The Conference Board.
Contention between return-to-office and work-from-home policies could lead to worker dissatisfaction and a drop in retention, the report found. About a third of workers required to come back to the workplace said their plans to stay with their company have decreased.
'In a world that can often seem like it's gone mad, we need to reimagine the workplace as an oasis for workers,' Rebecca Ray, executive vice president of human capital for The Conference Board, said in a statement.