Amazons RTO5 seems to be on the path of backfiring

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Companies issuing RTO mandates "lose their best talent": Study

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42444998

and from earlier in the year:

Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40339852

Amazon Delays RTO Mandate for Workers Due to Space

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42453041

> leaders across the tech industry have admitted RTO mandates were partly intended to trim headcount

It seems like they’re getting the desired result, and not actually backfiring?

You could interpret it that way. If your objective is to lose your best and/or most expensive talent. Probably a double-edged sword…

Yeah yeah yeah. There has been a literal exodus from tech companies in the past 3 years, since the word RTO was invented. Nobody works at any of these companies, and their HR is literally kidnapping people from trams, forcing them to work for them, right? And every 3 days there is a new article and research saying that even though everyone has left, the remaining headcount is about to leave too (even though the remaining headcount is converging to 0).

Or maybe not. Maybe some of them really want to leave. But if they failed to do in the past 3 years, maybe it's to think a bit, why is that.

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