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Return-to-office mandates are about to backfire

October 27, 2025/

Why companies demanding office returns are setting themselves up for failure.

Right now, tech workers are desperate. Companies know it. That’s why Amazon can demand five days in the office and get compliance instead of resignations.

But the labor market isn’t static; it never was. In fact, it tends to whipsaw back and forth every few years. Remember 2022? Companies were begging people to take jobs. Signing bonuses, remote work, unlimited PTO—whatever it took. Candidates were ghosting interviews. That shoe was totally on the other foot, and it was a Doc Marten.

BY Inc.


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