Although a recent wave of RTO orders fueled predictions that 2025 would mark the end of remote agreements, Placer.ai data shows a drop in office foot traffic so far this year. From the tone of ...

However, the NBER study measured productivity in data-entry tasks for lower-class workers ... should be taken into account when designing an RTO strategy. For starters, a narrow focus on labor ...

The study observed groups of data-entry workers in India working from home and from the office. People who worked from home saw their productivity fall by 18%, the researchers said. The debate on ...

But new data from University of Pittsburgh business administration professor Mark Ma suggests RTO policies tend to push out the most talented employees—and they are harder to replace than entry ...

Spoiler alert: it doesn’t. Following analysis of public RTO data from 137 S&P 500 firms, the researchers concluded that RTO mandates had two similar traits: They were more common for firms with ...

Workforce growth among companies that allow hybrid work is outpacing that of firms mandating a return to offices, data from Revelio Labs shows. Since the pandemic, some executives have pushed for ...

That is the question we set out to answer in our in-depth guide to the current state of office design and the RTO debate. For this report, Fast Company spoke with dozens of sources across the ...

Ground-level data suggests that return-to-office (RTO) policies have been effective at pushing sector visits higher nationwide. Office visits last month were 32.2% below March 2019 levels ...

Researchers studying RTO policies at S&P 500 companies found that in-office workers aren't more productive and don't increase value for shareholders. Oli Scarff/Getty Images ...

“This data suggests that despite top-down pressure and RTO mandates at several major U.S. companies, hybrid and remote work models remain widespread.” That rate of return to employer ...