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Organizations continue to announce updates to their return-to-office (RTO) mandates, including increasing the number of required in-office days, restricting specific days for remote work, and incorporating workers’ compliance with RTO mandates into their performance reviews. A few recent RTO updates include: 1) Kohl’s (NYSE: KSS), which announced that beginning in October, corporate employees must return to the office for at least four days a week (Monday through Thursday). This policy applies to employees who live within 30 miles of the company’s headquarters. Employees returning to the office will also receive two “work from anywhere” weeks each year. 2) Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), where employees in sales, workplace services, data center engineering, and onsite support technicians under the Chief Information Officer must come to the office four to five days a week, effective October 1. Other departments, such as marketing, legal, and product teams, will be designated “office-flex,” requiring at least three days a week in the office. 3) THG (The Hut Group) (LON: THG) has mandated a five-day office return starting August 19, 2024. The new policy could even impact employees with a formal flexible working arrangement agreed upon as part of their employment contract. The link below includes my cheat sheet showing a sample of 17 organizations that have announced RTO updates this year.
