The huge mistake of Return-To-Office (RTO) policies

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
Published in
3 min readAug 19, 2023

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IMAGE: A bunch of downtown office skyscrapers
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More and more companies are regretting having implemented return-to-office (RTO) policies for their employees after the pandemic.

While outfits like Meta or Zoom, once distributed work pioneers, have forced staff to spend a couple of days a week in the office, leading some to claim that distributed work is dead, others are learning the hard way that the five-day, eight-hour

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)