Return-to-office mandates can definitely influence employees’ perceptions of their employers. A study this year from the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz School of Business reported that S&P 500 companies’ mandates caused “significant declines in employees’ ratings of overall job satisfaction, work-life balance, senior management, and corporate culture.”

Both employers and employees making the RTO transition should consider seeking more opportunities for learning substantive and “soft” skills and relationship-building, while offering some of the flexibility that remote work has allowed. READ MORE