After almost a year, the resurgence of return-to-office mandates calls for employees from several companies to be in the office for at least part of the week after Labor Day. Companies such as FedEx, Zoom Communications, and Lyft will be among those that will impose the return-to-office mandates in the first week of September, research said.

Around 1 Million American Workers To Comply In Return-To-Office Mandates Beginning September. (Photo: Attheu.Utah.Edu)

Will It Be Easy To Implement Return-To-Office Mandates?

Technically, the return-to-office mandates have its pain points. CEO John Gates said that the return-to-office mandates surge might be a futile idea as employees are still human beings, and the only means to attain a higher number of office attendance is by a “return or else, everybody’s fired,” rule. According to a survey via Fortune, seventy-three percent of companies reportedly have difficulties getting their workers to undergo return-to-office mandates, which around forty-two percent of mandated workers resulted in a higher level of employee attrition.

It has been measured by property management and security firm Kastle Systems that the office attendance reached fifty percent this year, the highest rate since the pandemic. If return-to-office mandates are successful, the rate might even rise to fifty to sixty-five percent by the fourth quarter of the year, with Tuesdays and Wednesdays seeing a rate as high as eighty percent.

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Will Return-To-Office Mandates Get The Number Of Employees It Expect?

As a part of the return-to-office mandates, real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) has even shrunk its headquarters in Chicago’Aon Center by more than sixty-thousand square feet as workers decided to work from JLL’s suburban offices or an office near a train station because they provide an easier commute. According to Gates, it might be efficient to achieve a higher number of office attendance without losing them through HR’s involvement in the company’s decisions including space investments and return-to-office mandates.

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