Insperity

JUNE 2, 2022

According to a Future Forums study conducted in Fall 2021 about inflexible return-to-office policies, 44% of executives want to return to fully in-office work, compared to only 17% of non-executive employees. Employers’ view on a return to the office. What’s still the issue? So, what’s the solution?

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Insperity

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Often, change is predictable or planned well in advance, such as: Implementation of a new system or technology Introduction of a new office policy Moving to a new office Mergers and acquisitions Modification to senior leadership Reorganization of staff Retirement of a top-performing, highly valued employee.

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C-Suite Assistants

JANUARY 10, 2025

Companies who have a 100% in office policy have discovered reasons to embrace the hybrid office model, from reducing a firm’s energy costs to expanding the talent pool and boosting employee retention. Scheduled in-office days for the team or company prevent workers from coming in just to attend Zoom meetings.

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Great Place to Work

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

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Work Life

MAY 21, 2024

Playing the middleman between senior leadership and frontline supervisors has always been a little miserable, but the role reached a tipping point in the 2020s. Middle managers have led their employees through the pandemic, navigated the Great Resignation, and implemented upper management’s return to office policies to disgruntled workers.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 18, 2024

One of Amazon’s top executives defended the new, controversial 5-day-per-week in-office policy on Thursday, saying those who do not support it can leave for another company. ” Some employees who had not been previously compliant were told they were “voluntarily resigning” and were locked out of company systems.

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Work Life

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Implement a flexible work policy The hybrid model seems to be dominating businesses—with 90% of U.S. companies planning to implement return-to-office policies by the end of 2024, according to a report from Resume Builder. Here are three ways businesses can adapt to Gen Z workers.

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Bonnie Low-Kramen

MAY 10, 2023

The issue extends from mass layoffs by email and strict return-to-office policies to workers across the U.S. America has a problem, says Bonnie Low-Kramen: Many of the country’s CEOs are losing their sense of humanity.

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Work Life

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This policy is not just an ill-conceived quick fix—it reveals a deeper leadership failure. Amazon’s leadership, like many other companies, is clinging to old ways of thinking instead of evolving to meet the needs of today’s workforce and the potential of new working models.

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Work Life

MAY 22, 2024

Employee surveys show clear risks of mandatory return-to-office policies. Volunteer opportunities, learning sessions, leadership town halls, and company offsites are all good touchpoints that companies can establish to ensure that culture thrives even with distributed work.

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Work Life

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

But within the policy you set, offer some individual discretion where possible. If you need a team in the office four days a week, offer flexible start times to help alleviate arduous commutes. Or, if you have a three-day-per-week office policy, consider two anchor days and let employees choose the third day based on their own needs.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Illovsky talked to Fast Company about how tech companies are recovering from the tumult of the past few years, what she’s seeing in the hiring market, and how return-to-office policies are redefining company culture. There could be a new product area; they could be losing leadership. You never know.

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Ask a Manager

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

My company wants to micromanage internal goodbye emails Since we’ve had new leadership come into my small nonprofit organization, one of many new policies implemented by Head Boss is a requirement that any staff leaving the company must have their “all-staff goodbye” message reviewed and approved by bosses before sending it.

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Ask a Manager

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Our official office policy is to adhere to state guidelines and quarantine after trips, but that hasn’t been happening, from what I can see over Zoom. The leadership team is back in the office, at least part-time, so they must have at least some awareness of this employee’s weekend activities.

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Ask a Manager

MAY 25, 2017

As operations manager, I’m the one who constantly sends out the reminders to staff about office policies, hours among them. We’ve had some staffing issues recently and I know that our inflexible office policies are directly related to people leaving. I do not want to go down that route. Bad things come from that.

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Vantage Circle

MARCH 12, 2024

Google is factoring employees’ in-office attendance into their performance reviews. A report by Resume Builder , which surveyed 1,000 company leaders says - A whopping 90% of companies plan to implement return-to-office policies by the end of 2024.

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Ask a Manager

JULY 8, 2020

Of course you wanted to alert your manager to a violation of office policy that COULD KILL PEOPLE. It’s entirely reasonable to assume your company would want to know and would enforce their own damn policy. No, you should not have kept quiet! Legally, you’re fine.

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Work Life

JUNE 7, 2024

based employees working from home (or from a mountaintop yurt with Wi-Fi, if the spirit moves them), but its leadership also actively encourages all staff to reset with midday hiking or surf breaks whenever time permits. At the time, leadership was experimenting with Work from Home Fridays, but had yet to commit to the idea.

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Work Life

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The Center for Creative Leadership, a nonprofit focusing on leadership development, advises leaders who manage change to bring their team members together to create a shared vision around desired goals. This was not done with the switch to remote work, as workers were abruptly sent home because of health risks.

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All Work

MARCH 6, 2025

Melissa Marsh, Founder & CEO of PLASTARC, joined the Allwork.Space Future of Work Podcast and offered a fresh perspective on whats truly needed to build desirable work environments as companies struggle with return-to-office policies, hybrid work models, and defining the new role of physical workspaces.

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Work Life

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

AEW currently doesnt have a mandate for how many days a week its employees are expected to work out of its office. But its leadership teamlike many othershas been explicit about its desire to promote a predominately in-office culture. Employees often ask: “Are our leaders considering our needs?

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Work Life

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Organizations clinging to rigid in-office policies risk alienating their workforce and losing productivity in the process. AI Will Accelerate Careers AI will move beyond being just a task helper to becoming a career enabler in 2025, predicts Danielle McMahan, chief people officer for academic publishers Wiley.

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Work Life

MARCH 28, 2025

As return-to-office policies take hold and fully flexible work arrangements decline, employees are re-adapting to in-person interactions. Ask for feedbackgenuinely Asking for feedback regularly from your team members models important leadership behavior and promotes an open, growth-oriented, high-performance culture.

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Work Life

DECEMBER 19, 2024

But he also felt that senior leadership did not have clear reasons for forcing employees back into the office, especially given Jassy had previously expressed his support for continued remote work. But all that changed over the last two years, as senior leadership doubled down on bringing employees back to the office.

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Work Life

DECEMBER 25, 2024

As companies have imposed strict in-office policies along with ongoing layoffs and other cost-cutting measures, in some casesworkers have been increasingly vocal about their frustrations. People leaders have had their hands full this year.

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Work Life

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Here are four leadership trends to watch. Leadership trend: Continue to invest in DEI but call it something else With the recent election of Donald Trump as U.S. For example, inclusive leadership, or just good leadership. Systemize equity by examining policies and procedures to embed and sustain fairness throughout.

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