For those who expect RTO == “Recovery time objective” (for data backups)… and who then wondered if this was going to be about Required Time Off – because it couldn’t make people unhappy if it was Requested Time Off, no, it is none of those. It’s yet more junk jargon:

Return to Office

saved you a click

Killing WfH isn’t about boosting company value, it’s about restoring corporate real-estate value, which execs and shareholders are invested balls deep into. Pretty sure everyone knows this, and claims otherwise are just super transparent lies

They’re right.

I’m lucky. My employer treats us like gold and we’ve gone the opposite direction from most of corporate America. In April 2022 we started back with 3 required in-office days a week and have since gone down to 1.

It works great. I wish it were zero but I think there is some value to getting face time with coworkers, so I put up with one day a week.

Also it’s bad for the environment, and transport is expensive

Quelle fucking surprise, the thing every worker was saying about the relationship between RTO and productivity turned out to be true.