Work Life

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Advice for managers If you’re a top decision-maker at your company, your remote/hybrid/in-office policy should reflect your business needs as well as the needs and preferences of your staff. The result is what Levine calls a “misalignment” between what employers and employees want.

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 3, 2025

The retail giant, which has strongly advocated for a return-to-office policy, recently had to pause its plans for thousands of staff upon realising it lacked sufficient workspace to accommodate five-day office weeks. This challenge mirrors one faced by Amazon in the United States.

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Workplace Insight

JULY 2, 2025

At the same time, office occupancy rates are stabilising, with most reporting usage between 51 and 60 percent. Return-to-office policies are also becoming more clearly defined. Two-thirds of firms surveyed had already reduced their portfolios, but only one-third plan further cuts. One in eight organisations expects to expand.

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Yarooms

MARCH 13, 2024

Nowadays, the big question on many workplace leaders' minds is: " Should everyone return to the office ?" The future of work could be more about flexibility and less about everyone showing up at the office every day. According to a survey by the Conference Board , not many U.S. CEOs are in a rush to make that happen this year.

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Ask a Manager

MAY 28, 2015

how to change course on a bad office policy that you put in place was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. You can read my answer to this question over at Inc. today , where I’m revisiting letters that have been buried in the archives here from years ago (and often updating/expanding my answers to them).

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Work Life

JULY 19, 2024

Fast Company recently wrote about the rise in “coffee badging,” the practice of people making an appearance in the office (long enough to just grab a coffee) to comply with company return-to-office policies.

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Workplace Insight

JUNE 18, 2025

The study also notes that some organisations continue to emphasise in-office attendance despite employee preferences. However, mandatory return-to-office policies remain the exception rather than the rule in Australia, where employment law and social norms have largely supported more flexible approaches.

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Insperity

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Prioritizing quality and results over time spent in the office. Modeling desirable behaviors – managers should adhere to any office policies that promote work-life balance and avoid showing reluctance to take time off. Encouraging employees to take breaks and time off when needed.

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Insperity

JULY 30, 2020

However, if the problem is that the employee simply refuses to comply with office policies or make improvements in their image, conduct or attitude, you need to document this and initiate the disciplinary process. If a personal issue is the cause of negative behavior, refer the employee to your employee assistance program (EAP).

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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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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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Insperity

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Before the pandemic, employees were seen as “heroes” for coming to the office and powering through whatever ailment they had. Common office policies, such as rewarding no sick days taken or lumping in sick days with overall paid time off (PTO), may have inadvertently encouraged the practice of coming to work sick.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 13, 2024

The Telecoms giant’s Movers Index suggest that around 40 percent of firms now require five-day-a-week office work. Meanwhile, 92 percent of companies had some kind of mandatory in-office policy. Wednesday remains the top day for office work, with about three quarters of office workers coming in for the midweek.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Fast-forward to 2023, and companies keep talking about how they are preparing for a recession that hasn’t come, white elephant half-vacant office buildings dot the skyline in major cities, and the economy appears to be in a state of suspended animation. It’s only fair.

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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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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 10, 2024

Half (50 percent) of respondents say their employer has “productivity paranoia” over employees working away from the office, with 62 percent reporting their organisation has implemented a return to office policy within the last two years.

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Workplace Insight

AUGUST 11, 2023

Key findings: Leaders are digging into their data to find out if return-to-office policies are working. 88 percent of those surveyed work for organizations that have an in-office policy – and most are now measuring the success of this policy by delving into their data.

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Work Life

JULY 31, 2024

In recent months, however, companies have sought to wrest back control by imposing stricter return-to-office policies and cracking down on workers who they believe are shirking their duties.

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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.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 21, 2024

As a result, more stringent RTO mandates are giving rise to stealth management whereby managers are discreetly taking a more flexible approach to company policies to retain top talent. As it stands, nearly three quarters (70 percent) of managers have allowed team members to work from home despite an official return to office policy.

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Work Life

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

” Your ability to multi-communicate may also be impacted by office policies. If there is an open device policy, for example, the team may not consider someone checking email as a rude or unprofessional behavior. “It may not be perceived as a rude behavior; it could have a positive relational impact.”

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Office Snapshots

OCTOBER 22, 2024

There is also a wellbeing and prayer room to support inclusivity, and features to support Slalom’s dog-friendly office policy are also subtly incorporated, including drinking bowls and treat stations.

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Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Those that have set ‘number of days in the office’ policies have found that their people are not conforming to those policies, yet few organisations are prepared to take disciplinary action with ‘non-conformant’ staff. This leads to a feeling of unfairness and lower morale.

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Insperity

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

This demonstrates that your organization is fair and unbiased in the application of its policies, including the exceptions that may be provided. Compliance with office policies. All should be provided the excuse.

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Work Life

JANUARY 28, 2024

And the worst part is, not only is a rigid return-to-office policy the opposite of inclusive—it’s also completely unnecessary. Because of the inclusivity that remote work offers, rolling back on flexible working conditions is harmful to a company’s fabric of diversity.

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Work Life

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Many companies now have to navigate ringing in the holidays with far-flung employeeswhile those with strict return-to-office policies might be looking to curry favor with disgruntled employees. Gone are the days of lavish, multimillion-dollar parties, especially amid ongoing layoffs in industries like tech.

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Work Life

JULY 23, 2024

Even as companies double down on return-to-office policies, there are plenty of leaders who continue to see the value in allowing remote work, which can help give working mothers the flexibility they so often need to fully participate in the workforce.

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Envoy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It’s also important that leaders enforce their on-site policies while also stressing how these requirements benefit both the company and individual employees. Taking another look at market performance, tech companies with employees who adhered to in-office policies financially outperformed those who didn’t.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 20, 2024

Now the picture has shifted once more, with headlines pointing to increasing return to the office policies introduced by organisations, with greater productivity and collaboration among their top reasons for doing so.

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 25, 2024

According to the report, despite lengthy delays and commuting costs (including lunch and travel) of up to £7,540 a year, commuters returned to the office in their droves in 2023, with 52 percent of workers preferring to work in the office and 39 percent going in more frequently than in 2022.

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Work Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

If you create an engaged and positive work environment, then employees will do better work whether they are home or in the office. Return to office policies must factor in communication, well-being, health, safety, and flexibility for the unique needs of all individual employees.

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Great Place to Work

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Have a specific challenge you are working on, like your return-to-office policy or empowering your workforce with AI? Theres no better place to hear from leaders who have been in your shoes and cracked the code that drove their company to the top of the Fortune 100 Best.

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Work Life

MAY 21, 2024

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. They are, unsurprisingly, increasingly burned out. And they’ve become prime targets for the chopping block— 30% of laid off workers are middle managers.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Now, not only have some studies shown hybrid workers to be as productive as in office, it is becoming a must for competitive companies looking to recruit top talent. More and more people are moving away from hustle culture and prioritizing quality of life and work-life balance.

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Success

JULY 16, 2024

Why companies should implement pets at the office policies But pets at work are much more than just fun, furry colleagues. When it came time to head back to the office post-pandemic, pet owners became concerned about leaving their pooches home alone.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Some experts have already said that Amazon’s new in-office mandate—which will require employees to be in the office five days a week—is effectively a way to increase attrition, leading employees to voluntarily leave the company.

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Work Life

MAY 22, 2024

Employee surveys show clear risks of mandatory return-to-office policies. In the four years since the pandemic began, the availability of remote work as an option has become not just a coveted benefit for employees, but often an expectation. These same employees would also trade more than 20% of their compensation to work remotely.

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