New data showed a drop in workplace foot traffic in May, indicating a return to pre-pandemic occupancy rates will be very slow, if not impossible.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Senior employees at EY are looking at data that shows how frequently staff are in the office. At least 50% of some of its teams are disregarding its mandate to be in the office two days a week.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yet some of the biggest household names are still boosting their RTO mandates. A prime example of this is Amazon ... model is still the ideal productive model when using objective data." " We're not ...

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 ...

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 ...