They reportedly have an RTO mandate for all employees. Managers can override the mandate, and can withdraw their approval forcing them back to the RTO mandate default.

I expect driving senior talent away is part of the strategy - the senior talent demands the highest compensation, which is what these employers are combatting industry-wide and in coordination. They want to hire them back at lower wages later on.

If we read the article instead of just the headline, we see that it makes clear that Microsoft has a hybrid arrangement, and that said hybrid arrangement has still resulted in a loss of employees.

>Microsoft, which also enacted a hybrid RTO approach, saw a decline of 5 percentage points.

In that case it's really hard to pin it on RTO.

Something like 3 days per week is pretty much RTO.

It sounds like it is group dependent. Some managers might insist on firm RTO. Hard to get to that level of nuance from high level numbers.

going from remote to hybrid is still RTO, just not full RTO

Yeah I mean it doesn't capture the people that moved after wfh was implemented. Hybrid is appealing if your office is 500 miles away.

Claiming it's hybrid is disingenuous imo.