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by andrewdubinsky 813 days ago
Employees accept work-from-home & look for a work-from-home job. New applicants see on-site only and apply elsewhere.

Choices:

1. Hire desperate people who will come in 2. Accept that high-talent staff are unavailable to your company 3. Pay 30% more than the market for on-site staff

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I’ve been saying this too.

I would go as far as to suggest that any CEO who stubbornly and credulously insists on RTO from an ideological perspective should be treated with a healthy level of distrust by the company’s shareholders.

Why else would you deliberately choose to reduce your talent pool, be forced to pay more for that talent pool than your competitors, and result in a lower employee NPS, which in turn makes it harder to retain them.

RTO only works when WFH rates are low and the talent pool is forced to accept RTO. However we crossed that rubicon.

Now insisting on it as a CEO just makes you look incompetent.