Forcing workers to return to the office has led to firms losing their best employees

• Employees are more likely to leave a company after the introduction of an RTO policy, report claims
• Businesses find it slower and harder to hire with office-working mandate in place
• The researchers consider RTOs to be costly to businesses and detrimental to workers

New data collated by researchers from universities across the US and China has confirmed return-to-office (RTO) policies are pushing some of the most skilled and experienced employees to leave their jobs.

The ‘Return-to-Office Mandates and Brain Drain’ report tracked more than three million workers from tech and finance roles via LinkedIn to observe when they changed role in relation to company policy changes, noting businesses with tough RTO mandates saw higher rates of employee turnover.