If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Organizations are increasingly mandating a full return to the office (RTO). While this decision might be the right one for specific organizations, simply following this trend without careful consideration could be a strategic misstep for some organizations. As this new article points …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Here is my cheat sheet featuring 12 examples of organizations that announced return-to-office (RTO) updates between October 2024 and January 2025. Among the most recent updates: 1) JPMorganChase, the largest U.S. bank with 316,000 employees globally, will require hybrid workers to return …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. As organizations refine return-to-office, hybrid, and remote work policies, a new article by Brian Elliott outlines five key hybrid work trends for 2025: 1) Organizations embracing flexible work will steal talent from those imposing harsh mandates. 2) Forward-looking companies will measure performance by results, …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Organizational leaders continue to refine their return-to-office (RTO) guidance, with many implementing changes at the start of the year. To provide a snapshot, here’s my one-page cheat sheet highlighting nine announcements from the past 90 days, with links to full articles for …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Organizations continue to update their return-to-office (RTO) policies, ranging from full mandates to restricting specific days for remote work. As leaders make these decisions, emerging research offers important insights into how RTO impacts key organizational outcomes. A new working paper by Associate …
This new article by Nick Bloom and his colleagues shares findings from a study conducted at Trip.com, a leading global travel company, analyzing how hybrid work impacts various outcomes. In a six-month A/B test, 1,600 China-based employees in marketing, finance, accounting, and engineering were randomly assigned to either a five-day or three-day office schedule. After the experiment, …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Organizations continue to update their return-to-office (RTO) mandates, some of which I’ve captured in this PDF. As leaders make informed RTO decisions, it’s important to leverage the growing body of RTO research rather than simply reply on opinion or anecdotal information. Last week, …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Over the past several months, I’ve shared research from the emerging scientific literature on remote and hybrid work to help leaders make more informed return-to-office (RTO) decisions. In this context, this new paper by Marc Effron significantly advances the discussion …
As leaders continue to make return-to-office (RTO) decisions in the best interest of their organizations and stakeholders, this new article shares ideas that may be of interest. It argues that blanket RTO mandates—broad, one-size-fits-all policies requiring all employees to return to the office for a set number of days each week without considering individual or team-specific …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. 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 …
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