As companies like Amazon and JPMorgan end remote work policies in favor of returning to the office five days a week, tensions rise between employers and employees. Early attempts to enforce return-to-office (RTO) strategies were met with resistance, as many employees favored remote work. In response, some companies are linking office attendance to performance reviews and promotions, while federal mandates may further reinforce strict measures in the private sector. Employment lawyer Chris Moran highlights the unwillingness of some employees to comply with RTO mandates and the implications for company policies moving forward.
Many employees treated it as a suggestion," Chris Moran, an employment lawyer at Troutman Pepper Locke, says of early RTO policies. "That was something I don't know that employers saw coming—that a significant percentage of employees felt so strongly that they preferred to work remotely and were willing to sort of ignore [mandates]."
Now, with what's going on in the federal government, there's perhaps a little more cover for an employer to take the approach that they really mean it this time," Moran says.
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