Some people also like to be in offices. What is correlation between performance and office preference in different fields?
And even if they mostly prefer the office, they might not like the heavy-handedness with which management is pushing through RTO right now - who knows what else they might force next that directly affects them?
As such, everybody is kept on somewhat shaky grounds with these ever-changing decrees, and the people the companies should be most motivated to keep are best suited to leave.
The people who want to go to the office to escape the spouse they don’t get along with are consistently the worst employees in my experience.
"Dude, you have small kids. Why are they not seeing their dad, who is working 9am-7pm or worse?"
Take myself as an example. I live alone, in a small apartment. My home "office" is a corner of my living room. I'm not "rich" and unfortunately cannot currently get a place big enough to have a dedicated room for an office. As a result, over a long period of time of working from home I end up getting the feeling that I'm living at work. In general, I prefer a strict home-vs-work separation, so going to a physical office elsewhere to work over the longer term helps me.
Other reasons include that some other people who prefer working from an office outside their home may just in general like the in-person social aspect that comes along with it.
It's shocking to me to now see a narrative like what you're trying to push that labels people who want to go to the office as terrible people. Jeez, wow!
This is exactly why a lot of us DONT want to go back to the office - people holding their coworkers hostage because they don’t have a social life outside of work.
But what you're saying is NOT what the person I was responding to was saying, 'nor was it what I was responding to. I don't know if you read their post or not before replying to mine. Frankly, I'm not even sure if you even fully read my post if this is what you're zeroing in on ...
Maybe find some of those people that like it so much, and go to a coworking space together then? I'm pretty sure the company would be OK to reimburse.
No need to burden the company with renting an entire office for everybody, or force it onto others, when just some of you need a shared office.
Bonus: each subset of colleagues can find co-working spaces in areas that conveniences them, instead of a single forced upon everybody company-wide office location.