Many tech firms have spent the last two years summoning workers back into the office—all the while threatening them with layoffs. Even Zoom reverted to in-person working last year.
But now, it looks like tech bosses have given up their war on working from home.
Just 3% of tech firms are now asking their workers to go into the office full-time—a significant drop from 8% last year.
Flex Index analyzed the flexible work policies for 2,670 tech companies that collectively employ over 11 million people—and it found that tech firms have conceded that flexible working is here to stay.
In fact, 79% of the tech firms surveyed are fully flexible, up from 75% in 2023.
Meanwhile, more and more firms are giving employees the choice of when and where they work.
My company has been 100% remote work since 2012. RTO mandates were a godsend for us. We were able to expand are fully staffed with a tier of talent we never thought we would be able to attract.
EDIT: In case I wasn’t clear, we poached the fuck out of the competition.
Getting top talent at a discount or at the same price as local talent seems like a no-brainer.
We pay more than the big guys. The problem is that we could never compete on benefits or resume clout.
The ones that flipped back must have hit their downsizing targets.
Or, their leases ran out and they were able to move to smaller, cheaper office space by telling everyone to stay home. And think of all the awful coffee that no longer needs to be bought in bulk.
They’re only backtracking because they have to. Anyone with real talent is telling them to fuck off.
Yeah but how many have mandated RTO hours? I know Amazon is demanding two-hour minimums for their office workers. A far cry from fulltime but not exactly commuter friendly.
Amazon corporate has still not budged. Not only do you have to go in for that minimum, but you also have to badge in at least twice a week or your manager and skip level get a ticket about it.
Unless Google changes course, I don’t see a lot of wannabe tech companies changing their slow move back to the office.
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